How do we stay in the race?
Step 1: Understanding the requirements
It's been a long time in the making - over two years - but now it's here what do we know about Smart and Skilled?
A few easy to grasp facts are:
- It provides subsidised training for eligible participants in NSW
- There is a one year funding period
- Success in obtaining future contracts will be dependent on performance in 2015
And
- It is complicated.
Step 1: Understanding the requirements
It's been a long time in the making - over two years - but now it's here what do we know about Smart and Skilled?
A few easy to grasp facts are:
- It provides subsidised training for eligible participants in NSW
- There is a one year funding period
- Success in obtaining future contracts will be dependent on performance in 2015
And
- It is complicated.
Smart and Skilled at the starting gate
Basically, the pressure is on for Smart and Skilled Providers to produce the goods - quality training that expends, some would say, a fairly arbitrary allocation of fairly arbitrary amounts of funding . However, for most of us delivery is not a problem; quality training is what we do. The problem for many is in understanding exactly what the contractual requirements are; we know we have to clear the hurdles to stay in the race but what are they exactly and where do we find them?
Basically, the pressure is on for Smart and Skilled Providers to produce the goods - quality training that expends, some would say, a fairly arbitrary allocation of fairly arbitrary amounts of funding . However, for most of us delivery is not a problem; quality training is what we do. The problem for many is in understanding exactly what the contractual requirements are; we know we have to clear the hurdles to stay in the race but what are they exactly and where do we find them?
During the two years that the DEC was developing Smart and Skilled it does not appear that at any time the focus was on making it simple. I have spent the last two and a half months coming to terms with all aspects of the program by immersing myself in the documents and last week in a reply to a question I posted to STS I was referred to a Fact Sheet I had never sighted before!
To confound matters Training Matters put out a newsletter in the same week with new information and new requirements that had not, to my knowledge, been included in any previous document (to be discussed in next blog).
Smart and Skilled Documents
Concerned that I could be overlooking important information I decided to list all the Smart and Skilled Reference Sources relevant to current delivery of the program. This is what I came up with:
To confound matters Training Matters put out a newsletter in the same week with new information and new requirements that had not, to my knowledge, been included in any previous document (to be discussed in next blog).
Smart and Skilled Documents
Concerned that I could be overlooking important information I decided to list all the Smart and Skilled Reference Sources relevant to current delivery of the program. This is what I came up with:
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