Currently, Victorian businesses are facing critical skills shortages across all sectors. The skills and training sector can help to address this by creating short courses to rapidly upskill the workforce and assist employees transitioning into new industries or roles within their current workplace. 

Our Focus

• Address and prevent skills shortages. 
• Develop a standardised micro-credential framework to enable the rapid reskilling and upskilling the workforce.
• Encourage businesses to offer more internships and employ more international students to help address critical skills shortages.
• Ensure Victorian businesses have high-quality apprentices and trainees needed to sustain their operations.
• Ensure training outcomes lead to sustainable employment.
• Grow the number of apprenticeship and traineeship placements across all sectors.
• Ensure our vocational and higher education systems are flexible and responsive to changing industry and occupational needs.
• Improve Victorian employee language, literacy, and numeracy skills.
• Support regional Victorian growth by addressing the barriers that employers and students can encounter.
• Create a more inclusive and accessible workforce and business opportunities for mature workers, people with disabilities, Indigenous Victorians, and people of all cultural backgrounds.