The 2016 Education and Skills Network meeting is jointly organised by the Department of Labour and Employment, Philippines, ADB, OECD and GIZ and the latter’s regional programme RECOTVET (“Regional Cooperation Programme to Improve the Training of TVET Personnel”), which aims at supporting and creating personnel, institutional and thematic preconditions for quality improvement and regional harmonisation of the education and training of training personnel in South East Asia over the next years.

1. A regional approach to industry
defined occupational standards
Scott Neil
Assistant Secretary
Governance and Engagement Branch
Australian Government Department of Education and Training

2. Australia’s work in APEC to address the global skills
challenge
Transport and logistics project
Occupational Standards Framework
Integrated Referencing Framework

3. Regional occupational standards in transport and
logistics
5 APEC economies
5 occupations
47 occupational standards
5 companion volumes
SAMPLE:

4. Formalising the development of APEC occupational
standards
Establish a working group
(government and
industry)
Develop an agreed job
role for the occupation
Identify and define the
common core skills (draft
occupational standard)
Validate the standards
with industry
Benchmark to education
and training systems and
labour markets
Confirm the final
standards with the
working group
Occupational
Standards
Framework
(OSF)

5. The benefits are far-reaching
INDUSTRY
• Increase
understanding of the
skills held by workers
• Identify potential
employees
• Evaluate potential
employees
GOVERNMENT
• Assess the skills of
incoming migrants
• Benchmark TVET systems
• Assist in TVET policy
reform, development and
implementation
TRAINING PROVIDERS
• Develop and deliver
contextually relevant
training courses
INDIVIDUALS
• Benchmark and
assess their skills
for regional
recognition and
mobility purposes

6. For further information on these initiatives,
please contact:
InternationalSkills&VET@education.gov.au