Improving language, literacy and numeracy skills for the VET workforce: final report to Innovation and Business Skills Australia

In its March 2010 report, 'Australian workforce futures: a national workforce development strategy' [available in VOCEDplus at TD/LMR 85.708], Skills Australia proposed that the Level 4 unit concerning [language, literacy, numeracy] LLN (TAELLN401A Address adult language, literacy and numeracy skills) should be incorporated in the TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment as a core rather than elective unit. At that time, [Innovation and Business Skills Australia] IBSA had already concluded an extensive consultation process (during 2009) to revise the previous Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAA40104) and had determined on that basis to incorporate the unit as an elective. In addition, IBSA judged that simply to incorporate the unit without any other related action would not achieve the desired outcome: to improve the LLN skills of the VET workforce. Consequently IBSA sought funds from the [Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations] DEEWR to undertake a scoping study to determine an effective and efficient means of upgrading the skills of the workforce in this area. This report presents the findings of this study.

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