Continuity and change: employers’ training practices and partnerships with training providers

Organisation type: Not for Profit (n=23)
What is it about?	How did it come about?	What benefits does it bring to your organisation?	What benefits does it bring to the industry partner/employer?	(Optional) What revenue does this partnership bring in to your organisation in an average year?
Developing and providing evidence-based quality online training in palliative care	I approached a partner to put together a response to a Commonwealth grant invitation	It demonstrates to other clients, and potential clients, our capabilities in online learning product design and delivery. / It puts our brand into other VET and Higher Education providers as they adopt the content within their own programs.	It reinforces their brand as an industry peak and advocacy body. / It promotes their brand to overseas jurisdictions and service providers (as we have attracted over 23,000 students from 24 countries).	The revenue is fixed under the terms of the grant so does not rise or fall with student volumes. The actual amount cannot be disclosed.
Providing responsive, flexible training services to industry that meets both the learner and the employers’ needs.	A manufacturing company requiring existing worker upskilling without impacting excessively on their 24 hour production capability. On-site training between shifts was established with a dedicated classroom and access to practical workplace assessment.	An industry partnership that has developed and expanded over 10 years at the worksites both in this state and more recently interstate.	A highly skilled workforce with relevant, timely and strongly supported training, and achieved with minimal impact on productivity.
Providing placement opportunities for our students and recruitment opportunities for the industry partner	The industry partner approached us	Easier to place students for practical placement	No need to advertise for staff, can recruit directly from placement students	$0 - but is saves staff wages trying to find placement opportunities for staff
Training industry employees	Request from industry	Effective partnerships with Industry to ensure our training and assessment services are aligned to industry needs, meet the changing demand of industry.	have a say in the content of training and assessment, / Have access to potential employees (skilled) / Meet legislative requirements / safe and skilled workforce
Providing support to remote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students working in early childhood education and care	Partnering with [an organisation] and having a shared vision	increased students / aligned with strategic mission	Support in providing relevant and appropriate training and assessment to students	30000
Mutual service partnership - work placement for our students which benefits us and the industry employer	Strategised and planned for more hands-on experience for our students to gain practice in the real world, rather than just a simulated environment	Reputation gained with how good our training is, and the industry partners are keen to obtain more of our students. / Satisfies the work placement requirement which is embedded as part of our course	Free labour during the work placement period. / The opportunity to witness our students, and employ them once their work experience is completed.	None
Training staff in education institutions	Client inquiry	Fee for service, improvement in career development of young people, long term partnership.	Expertise, positive outcomes for clients, more effective service delivery
Working with an Aboriginal community - delivering children's services qualifications	We were approached by members of an Aboriginal community to upskill both community members and existing workers in the early childhood service	Knowledge and skills in training and assessment for our employees, working together to customise training and assessment to meet the requirements of an Aboriginal community, strengthen relationships and partnerships for our whole organisation	Existing staff becoming qualified and a larger pool of non-working community members to draw from if required as relief or as new employees
Providing LLN support to a national pastoral provider	We had worked with the employer on other projects and they provided 'seed' money and then we pursued government funds.	Income. Learnings from working directly with a large national employer. Increased credibility in similar markets	Flexible service of workforce needs with government funds that would not otherwise be available to them	$500k
To deliver timely and relevant training where gaps exist.	By approaching industry direct where a partnership funding opportunity arose.	Keeping up to date with industry needs.	A better skilled and job ready work force.
Delivering training and assessment to Aboriginal health workers in their community.	Word-of-mouth from an ex-employee who went to work with the remote clinic. Discontentment with the public provider	Extended our scope outside of central Australia where volume and numbers can be low. Brand recognition outside of our usual working footprint. Improved relationship with funding bodies to see possibilities of our operations.	A very close working relationship with regards to learner needs and capabilities. Formal accredited training to remote learners and a commitment to training of employees.	5% of fee for service income
Providing leadership and management training for team of managers, team effectiveness and communication training for employees plus industry specific compliance (OH&S and First Aid) training for employees	Referral from industry association	Gives us the opportunity to demonstrate the range of training options available from our organisation, in types (from Cert II to Diploma), delivery mode and delivery site	Meets specific needs.
Ongoing traineeships within our own childcare services. Offering both cert III and diploma in early education and care	When the child care regulations changed and all staff had to be working towards a qualification, we became an RTO to provide quality training.	We are able to give our employees traineeships within the organization. We then find we have staff that are qualifying and training in our own services.	Providing quality qualified staff in the Child Care industry.	Through traineeships
Getting a group of previously unqualified staff in an organisation trained and ensuring that the organisation can then moving forward train their own staff.	Through previously established networks	Increased revenue, better industry connection	High quality staff training, ability to provide staff training internally, better ROI	100000
Partnering with community and aged care providers and hospitals to accept our students for placement opportunities	Our organisation is highly regarded in the health industry, some of the partners were from our approach to health sites, others have come about due to them only wanting our students for clinical placements.	Enables students to complete their diploma (it is part of their course) and also provides our 40% of our students with permanent job offers on completion of their training. / We also have our staff spend time on the wards at the hospital or aged care/community site twice yearly, to ensure industry currency. These qualified staff can assist the health sites in busy times.	Offers the health partners an opportunity to pick up our top graduates for permanent jobs in their hospitals etc. / Our RTO is a well recognised brand, delivering high level of nursing service for over a century - good kudos, plus good revenue as our organisation also has private placements which is lucrative for hospitals etc.	Not in monetary terms - however, clinical placement is at a cost of approximately $350 per student per week while onsite - this is more of a saving to our organisation than a revenue.
Pre-employment training	Through business networking opportunity	Access to industry practices/ employment opportunities for participants/work experience opportunities access to funding	Assistance with recruitment. Funded training
Contract with industry association acting for a sector.	Long history of successful partnerships.	Helps staff development and secures niche market strategic skills development	Increases enterprise capabilities and therefore competitiveness	600000
Mutual benefits	Contacts in the industry	More students and credibility in the industry	Credibility	100000
Up skilling workforce	Industry partner	Income / Reputation as quality training provider	Skilled staff / Better staff morale
Traffic control training	Approached by industry in response to changed circumstances with training requirements	Spread risk exposure / increase range of services offered / increased presence of organization in new field	Increased service offered / new business venture / improved professionalism by association
Developing skills in the counselling industry.	Organisation approached us	Expansion of our services throughout the state. Industry consultation and networks. Knowledge sharing and better outcomes for or students with practical	Accredited training delivered in a manner which is responsive to industry needs.
Operator training on machinery and tyre fitting	Word of mouth from companies we have already did training for	Competent personnel to the company and revenue to our company	Better qualified personnel and increase of production	400000
Improving skills to allow organisation to better perform	Through membership of association	income to provide additional services / Satisfy members needs	Improves their productivity.

Q14. What training (industry/occupational area) is your organisation best known for in terms of currently successful training partnerships with industry (e.g. training in aquaculture, laboratory operations)? (n=84)

TAFE	For Profit	Not for Profit
1. Refrigeration, air conditioning and climate control / 2.Veterinary nursing / 3. Music Agriculture / Aviation / Health Apprenticeship in trade areas including hair, beauty and cookery Apprenticeships in traditional trade areas (building construction, auto; engineering; hairdressing; cookery etc.) / Spatial and surveying / Electronics Automotive, gas, rail, engineering, manufacturing, electrical, water operations Business , science and design Business / Building & construction / Earth sciences (institute offers 500 courses across 6 campus) Business, Information Technology, health and community services (including childcare). Hospitality and building/construction. Community health, hospitality and social services. / Electro technology, ICT & design / Transport and logistics Construction and safety Forestry / High risk training / Shearing Health / Building and construction / ICT Hospitality / Business services / Community services/health Hospitality and cookery / Mining / Performing arts Manufacturing, engineering and automotive Meat processing (on shore and off shore) / Processing plant operations (energy/ resource sector related) / Transport and logistics (truck, haulage) Nursing is our biggest program. Creative industries is a growing sector and trades continues to hold its spot as the 2nd largest faculty. / A new strategy is being implemented to grow tourism and hospitality - a major employment sector for the region. Pre-employment, including language and literacy / maritime / agriculture/pastoral	Aged care Animal technology / laboratory operations / Beauty therapy Building industry Business and children services Business, retail, hospitality flexibility, fast response, thoroughness in working with employers and trainees Dive industry Farming First aid / Fitness Fitness Hairdressing / Retail Health training High risk work licensing, heavy vehicle licence upgrades Hospitality Hospitality / Business / Automotive Laundry, cleaning, aged care and mental health Management, logistics, building trades Medicine (and I mean 'medicine' not anodyne 'health') / Dentistry / Nursing Mine safety, risk management and emergency operations outdoor recreation Pool lifeguard training Public relations Retail industry Security operations and risk management Supervisor/management development TAE - across all industries / Procurement and contract management training for Commonwealth and State government TAE for VETiS TAE, business TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment / Oil and gas Drilling / Well-servicing / Transport and logistics (warehousing) To produce a good media/video content which suits the offer and vision of the business or organisation Traineeships in Certificate II, III and IV in Agriculture Training and Assessment (Certificate IV / AQF level 4) Training and assessment. As authors of the best-selling books "Vocational Training and Assessment" and "Professional Training and Assessment", our expertise in training effective trainers is well known. Training in childcare (childcare centres) Training in civil construction equipment, training in high risk work licences; training in mining equipment and practices Training in health support services and food services Training in high risk work, traffic management and construction industry skills. / A lot of the courses we partner for are considered "high risk" by other partnering organisations and will not be done by them. Unknown Veterinary acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, western herbal medicine, integrative medicine Warehousing and civil construction	1. Workplace compliance: (WHS across all industries) / Traffic control / Work Cover NSW Courses / First Aid / 2. Service the disadvantage: / SEE program as transition to work - foundation skills Aged care Aged care, disability services Business services from Cert II to Diploma level. Career development Child care / Leadership / Communities Community pharmacy, management, leadership Community services / Food production Construction Construction / High risk work Early childhood education and care Early childhood education and care / School age education and care / Frontline management Electrical skills assessment for overseas qualified workers. Healthcare, mostly nursing, palliative care, aged care and community care. High end, post trade specialist plumbing training Literacy and numeracy / Community services Mental health and mental health peer work Polymer processing and polymer technology Primary health care specifically for ATSI people working/living in remote communities. Retail/Food service/hospitality Rural, agrifood and wine industries Traditional trades including: electrical/electronics, Carpentry/Construction, metals and engineering / Community health including aged care and disability Training enrolled nurses - Diploma of Nursing - with expertise in areas such as advanced wound care, breathing and life support, acquired brain injury, open disclosure etc. Training in community services Training in Wheelchair Accessible Taxi (WAT) services Tyre fitter training