The Victorian Government has announced a $241.47 million investment in Victoria’s vocational education and training sector.

The investment, outlined in Maintaining the Advantage: Skilled Victorians articulates the government’s key vocational education and training priorities to increase the skills of existing workers and adult learners, as well as apprentices and trainees.

Maintaining the Advantage: Skilled Victorians encompasses four key actions:

• Starting earlier – providing greater opportunities for students to participate in vocational education and training while at school
• Learning longer – encouraging people to aim higher and extend their skills throughout their working lives
• Getting smarter – opening up employment opportunities that demand higher-level skills
• Making it easier - providing better information about career pathways and training opportunities and making the training system more responsive.

Copies of the document will be distributed to all Board members.

A download is available from here [PDF 1.5MB]

Related Links:

http://www.det.vic.gov.au/det/resources/policies.htm

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