Victorian Skills Plan updated for 2024-25

The Victorian Skills Authority (VSA) produces an annual Skills Plan that identifies priority areas for improvement to support Victoria’s economic growth and prosperity.

The key current priorities of the Victorian Skills Plan for 2024 into 2025 include implementing the Housing Statement, advancing the Big Build, continuing Victoria’s clean economy transition and building the digital capabilities of Victoria’s workforce.

These efforts aim to strengthen Victoria’s productivity, increase employment and improve standards of living.

Building on the work program established in previous Plans, the 2024 Skills Plan focuses on strategies to:

• deliver knowledge and skills that strengthen economic growth, and enable the delivery of government priorities, with Victorian TAFEs leading the training response
• make it easier for people to access Vocational Education and Training (VET), up-skill and re-skill
• better connect secondary school students to the world of work.

The Skills Plans also represents Victoria’s contribution to progressing national priorities under the National Skills Agreement and the Australian Universities Accord, including:

• building foundation skills
• supporting the clean economy transition
• developing the VET workforce
• improving the experiences of women in training and in the workforce
• empowering First Nations peoples
• supporting people with disability
• redesigning VET qualifications, and improving digital skills.

According to the Skills Plan, around 1,421,000 new workers, including 668,000 workers in occupations that generally require VET, are expected to enter the Victorian economy over the next 10 years, while the digital transformation means that digital skills will be essential for 1.2 million new workers over the next 10 years.

Minister for Skills and TAFE Gayle Tierney said: “Building on the comprehensive skills response set out in the first two Skills Plans, the Victorian Skills Plan for 2024 into 2025 presents the new priorities needed to ensure Victorians have the right skills to power our economy into the future.

“This year’s Skills Plan is another call to action for everyone in the skills system to work together to meet Victoria’s workforce needs, strengthen the economic competitiveness of our regions, and provide Victorians with the skills they need for the jobs they want.”

The full plan reports on the progress of actions from previous Skills Plans and includes the Victorian Skills Plan Implementation Update for 2024. As part of its release the Victorian Government also released a State of the Victorian Labour Market Report 2024 and Employment Projections Dashboard for 2024.