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NTB Network is a newsletter produced by the National Training Board and focuses on training and national competency standards for occupations and classifications in industry or enterprise awards or agreements. Contents can cover industry updates, training reforms and the vocational education and training system, networking events, project updates, overseas developments, and resource reviews.

Number 17, June 1995 is the last edition of NTB Network. MINCO at its May meeting agreed that the functions of ACTRAC and the NTB be subsumed into a new Standards and Curriculum Council within ANTA from 1 July. The Council will also have new functions relating to NFROT, assessment, and national qualifications. The new structure is an important and welcome step toward achieving the goals of a national training system responsive to industry and enterprise needs. Processes to enable the transition to proceed smoothly are well advanced. The Board's assets, records, and staff will transfer to ANTA and the Council on 1 July. The Council will have a new office in Melbourne in addition to the Board's present offices in Canberra. Although its business will have moved to ANTA, the NTB will continue to legally exist for a few months whilst the necessary steps are taken to place the company into voluntary liquidation, probably in September.

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This book was published in conjunction with the conference Global Competencies, Workplace Outcomes, held in Sydney in March 1995. It is intended to showcase the successes of Australia's industry and enterprise Competency Standards Bodies in partnership with the National Training Board (NTB). It uses Australian works of art depicting wartime industry, taking as its theme the contrast between past achievement and future promise. There is a brief discussion of each industry, with an indication of the endorsed standards for that industry, and a contact person included for the training advisory body. Show less

This document reports on a project that undertook further work to articulate the principles by which key competencies may be incorporated into industry competency standards. It proposes that the process of incorporating key competencies into standards involves mapping key competencies onto units of competency which is encapsulated by a number of principles. Show less

The National Training Board (NTB) was established in April 1990 to take responsibility for the setting of national skill standards. Its main role was to assist industry to develop and then endorse national competency standards for occupations and classifications in industry or enterprise awards or agreements as the basis for the introduction of competency-based training (CBT). The second report describes progress during the Board's first full year of operations. The NTB's functions were absorbed by the Standards and Curriculum Council of the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) in 1995. Show less

This document sets out the policies and guidelines of the National Training Board (NTB). It replaces the first edition published in January 1991. It provides broad guidance on the role, development, endorsement, maintenance and review of national competency standards, and outlines the Board's approach and policies for carrying out its charter. Show less

This selection of highlights from the National Training Board's (NTB's) annual report contains information on: acronyms, the national training reform agenda; national goals; competency based training; the role op the NTB; outstanding issues; challenge for the NTB; standards; national registers; training guarantee; the Board and staff of the NTB; the year in prospect; competency standards and competency standards bodies. Show less

This brief report describes the benefits to employers of competency based training and industry training standards. It also lists recognised competency standards bodies in Australia. Show less

This document sets out the broad policy which the National Training Board (NTB) will follow in endorsing national competency standards and provides guidelines to those involved in developing them.

It includes: an introduction to the role of competency standards in the vocational training system; the NTB's policy and priorities; an outline of the Australian standards framework; analysis methods used in developing competency standards; the format for presentation of competency standards; procedures for NTB recognition of competency standards bodies to develop standards, and; Board processes for endorsing competency standards.

Appendices include a glossary of terms and information on the NTB and its relationship with government bodies in the vocational training field. Show less

This corporate plan, revised annually, outlines the strategic directions of the Board in the medium term, and the current year's priorities. It contains six strategies: standards coverage; standards quality; cooperation; communication; national registers; management. Show less

This paper addressed the issues of how the National Training Board (NTB) should go about its tasks and what its priorities should be, through a clarification of the concept of national skill standards, their content and nature, and the principles which the Board should adopt in examining and ratifying the skill standards proposed by industry.

The principal matters discussed are: the choice of a standards framework for Australia; the process and methodology by which standards should be developed; the format and content of standards, and; quality assurance matters. Show less