AgriFood Skills Australia has consulted with industry and RTOs on the effectiveness of the Bridging the Gap model as a means to explain all elements of training packages, including the job role or job specification.
Any shared or general understanding of what training packaes are and what they do must be built a clear definition of what a job role or job specialisation is. And this must be available to Registered Training organsiations (RTOs), state and territory training authorities, employers and by the workers themselves.
Bridging the Gap seeks to provider an integrated and more readable model that gives greater information about jobs and the qualifications, skill sets and units that make up the training package regime.
RTOS are seeking input to developing a model that offered a simpler, clearer and more holistic approach to training package applications and understanding. But this needs to include the perspective of employers, workers and their union representatives, plus the government agencies that frame legislation and provide the administrative support and standards.
The Bridging the Gap model is in direct response to industry needs and expectations and it explores opportunities to deliver improved skills. It aims to make the training system more responsive and relevant to a contemporary workforce and to demystify training packages by giving stronger and more relevant supporting advice relating to the content of learning programs.
Bridging the Gap seeks to explain the architecture of many of the system reforms planned by AgriFood Skills Australia and to give more clarity to a wider range of training package users and a better understanding of the endorsed components of training packages. It emphasises the training and assessment programs that deliver training package outcomes.
Bridging the Gap engages the END USERS of the product so they can understand and implement training package content as industry requires it and places an emphasis on industry and jobs and an understanding of the needs of people and enterprises.
Bridging the Gap is expected to lead to a significant improvement in the quality of training course design and training package
implementation, with benefitsfor industry and enterprises and greater understanding by training organisations.
Success in business comes from having the right skilled people in the right jobs. A successful business plan identifies staff requirements, their job descriptions and their skills required to achieve business goals.
AgriFood Skills Australia, as a leader of job specifications and associated training and assessment pathways for the AgriFood industry, has developed products that will assist you to develop job descriptions, design learning programs, identify evidence of skill achievement and link you to nationally recognised training products such as qualifications, skill sets and career pathways.
With clearly defined job descriptions you can ensure that the right people are selected for the job or the right training program can fill the skill and knowledge gaps.
Linking the expected work performance to training programs is considered fundamental to the model proposed by ASA that will ensure congruence between RTOs training programs and industry productivity requirements. Click here to go to the Industry Products page.
Business success in the AgriFood industry comes from having well trained personnel with the right skills for their jobs.
A successful RTO works closely with industry to ensure that their training programs meet the enterprise’s skill requirements and their business goals.
AgriFood Skills Australia, as a leader of job specifications and associated training and assessment pathways for the agrifood industry, has developed products that will assist you design learning programs, identify evidence of skill achievement and link you to nationally recognised training products such as qualifications, skill sets and career pathways.
The integrated model enables the RTO to gain access to industry information systems and products to improve their capability to deliver industry training requirements through the engagement of the national training system. Click here to go to the RTO products page.
Employers, industry and government all agree that the future of thisindustry relies on a more responsive and clearly understood National Training System.
AgriFood Skills Australia has conducted extensive research and development addressing issues that have limited the performance of the national training system, in particular training packages. The outcome of these efforts is captured in the Bridging the Gap model, designed to bring industry and the formal training system together in an integrated way that has never before been promoted.
The integration involves merging existing workforce development systems and approaches with the formal training system. The model incorporates products designed to bridge the gap between what has been, until now, two separate systems. AgriFood is confident the new approach will maximise the results for employers, employees, industry and government and advance the consolidation of the model to create a more cohesive and responsive workforce.