Principal Sponsors
Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET)
ACPET is the national industry association for private providers of post-compulsory education and training. It was established in 1992 as a not-for-profit company under the Corporations Act to represent the interests of private providers in discussions with Commonwealth, state and territory governments and their agencies.
Today, ACPET plays a much more diversified role, which includes information for members on matters such as legislation, interpretation, compliance, and support in terms of professional development, mediation and networking opportunities. The ACPET national conference, to be held this year from 28-30 August in Hobart, is one of the most prestigious in the country. ACPET tuition assurance schemes (TAS), for overseas and for Australian students, assist members to comply with the ESOS legislation and AQTF standards, adding a quality assurance measure to protect members and students.
ACPET is the peak body representing the private education and training sector in Australia, with over 1000 members from all states and territories. Each year more than 2.5 million students choose to attend an institution in the private education sector, which makes over a billion dollar contribution to the Australian economy.
ACPET's Victorian members operate across the full range of industry sectors — higher education, vocational education and training, commercial and not-for-profit areas, and courses for overseas students including ELICOS and foundation studies. ACPET is closely involved with the OTTE in managing major projects such as e-learning, disability awareness, RPL and AQTF compliance for private RTOs.
ACPET is pleased to be a principal sponsor of the Victorian Training Awards, and proud to play its part in encouraging students, staff and providers to ensure best practice and a high-quality vocational education and training system in Victoria.
For more information about private providers and their role in the provision of vocational education and training, visit the 'ACPET' website.
Australian Training Awards
The Australian Training Awards are the peak, national awards for vocational education and training, recognising innovation and excellence in the training sector.
The Australian Training Awards are the culmination of the state and territory awards with winners from each state and territory competing in the national finals in the following categories:
- Employer of the Year
- Prime Minister's Small Business of the Year
- Australian Training Initiative
- VET in Schools Excellence
- Large Training Provider of the Year
- Small Training Provider of the Year
- Australian Apprentice of the Year
- Australian Apprentice (Trainee) of the Year
- Stella Axarlis Australian School-based Apprentice of the Year
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year
- Vocational Student of the Year
This year the Australian Training Awards will be held at the Darwin Convention Centre on 20 November.
For more information on the Australian Training Awards, call 13 38 73 or visit the Australian Training Awards website.
Crown
The Crown Entertainment Complex is one of the world's largest entertainment complexes of its kind, housing two hotel properties - the five-star Crown Towers and the four-star-plus Crown Promenade Hotel. Both are within easy access to in excess of 40 restaurants and bars, emporium of over 30 retail boutiques, several night clubs, cinema complex, interactive entertainment arcade, a live cabaret-style venue, plus the 24-hour Crown Casino, the biggest gaming facility in the Southern Hemisphere featuring 2500 gaming machines and 350 gaming tables including 50 poker tables.
As an employer of more than 5000 Victorians, Crown is committed to training and development. Crown's innovative training programs are designed to develop the skills, knowledge and career opportunities of our employees.
For more information, visit the Crown website.Department of Justice - Indigenous Issues Unit
Business Unit Environment
The Indigenous Issues Unit operates within the Community Operations and Strategy division of the Department of Justice. The Indigenous Issues Unit co-ordinates and monitors the development and delivery of the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement (AJA), which aims to reduce Koori over-representation in Victoria’s criminal justice systems.The IIU works closely with other AJA-related business units within the department to promote the participation and partnership of both the Koori Community and Victorian Government in developing and delivering policies, programs and initiatives.
Teams within the Indigenous Issues Unit include Community Programs, Policy Coordination, Koori Recruitment and Career Development, Community Development and Monitoring and Reporting.
Our Objectives
The objectives for Indigenous Issues Unit are to:- assist in achieving justice outcomes for the Koori community
- provide and develop leadership in the implementation of the AJA2
- build the capability in Justice and the Koori community to develop and deliver effective and efficient justice services to the Koori community
- monitor, review and propose improvements to the delivery of the AJA2
- provide executive services to the key Indigenous Issues forums and committees.
Our Values
Our values play a critical role in shaping how we operate as an organisation. They influence our performance planning, recruitment, training and development, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Our values actively support our aim of creating a cohesive and dynamic organisational culture where staff feel happy and valued. Our values are:- Serve the Community
- Work Together
- Act with Integrity
- Respect other people
- Make it Happen
Group Training Association of Victoria
Group Training Association of Victoria (GTA Vic) is a peak employer body which represents a network of 23 independent not-for-profit Group Training Organisations. Group Training Organisations are the largest employers of apprentices and trainees in Victoria; collectively they employ more than 10,000 Apprentices and Trainees throughout the state. GTOs work closely with host employers, business and industry to ensure their investment in training results in highly skilled apprentices and trainees.
For more information, see the 'Group Training Association' of Victoria website.
Koori Business Network
The Koori Business Network (KBN) is the Victorian Government’s primary agency for promoting the growth of sustainable Indigenous businesses and economic development. As a part of the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD), KBN was established to address Indigenous economic disadvantage and provide targeted support services for existing and potential Indigenous businesses in Victoria.
KBN Business Development Officers meet business intenders and established business across Victoria. KBN provides access to professional development, business mentors and support through its programs, and also assists businesses achieve their goals by facilitating networking and business opportunities.
KBN Programs
KBN’s upcoming programs include:- Business Showcasing
- Tyema Research Program
- Partnership with RMIT and Swinburne Universities.
- Business Support & Development
- Young Indigenous Entrepreneurs program
- Business Mentoring
- Trade Fairs & Missions including the Murrinbidja Trade Fair
- Daborah Advanced Business Training Program
- Indigenous Youth Forums
- Private & Community Partnerships
Contacting the KBN
Phone: 1300 799 526 (toll free within Victoria) or (+61 3) 9651 9158.
Fax: (+61 3) 9651 8044
Email: kbn@iird.vic.gov.au
Website: www.business.vic.gov.au/kooribusiness
McDonald's
McDonald's see themselves as a People Business. Because people are our most important asset, training is a high priority. The training and development of people, together with sound people practices, are of fundamental importance to the successful running of a McDonald's restaurant. Training is viewed as an essential investment, not a cost. Accordingly, McDonald's invests significantly in training every year.
McDonald's goal is to ensure that every employee through the organisation
has access to the best training program. These training programs are
useful, practical and nationally accredited.
Every McDonald's crew member undertakes a structured training program and
receives training in the various facets of operations including Customer
Service, Food Preparation and Workplace Health and Safety.
Beyond this universal training, McDonald's offers nationally recognised
training programs to crew people and managers wishing to progress further
in the organisation or who want to develop career paths in other parts of
the retail, hospitality or other industries.
These accredited courses include:
- Certificate II in Retail Operations
- Certificate III in Retail Supervision
- Certificate IV in Retail Management
- Diploma of Retail Management
- Advanced Diploma of Management
To find out more about the great opportunities McDonald's have to offer, see the McDonald’s website.
Mint Group
About Mint Group
Mint Group is Australasia’s leading provider of high quality customised training, recruitment and consulting services to a diverse range of companies across the globe. Using their one-stop, total HR approach, Mint Group has mastered numerous challenging HR projects which have kept them at the apex of human resource management across a range of industry sectors.
Vision
Mint Group’s commitment to holistic and customised human resource solutions means that they are constantly working to stay at the forefront of international HR initiatives surrounding training and recruitment practices. This requires an inherent knowledge of HR management, and an enduring commitment to meeting their clients’ expectations in a prompt and professional manner.
Overview
Achieving maximum results in HR management requires highly evolved organisational and interpersonal skills. To facilitate the needs of their diverse client base, Mint Group’s services have been streamlined into four divisions: Mint Training, Mint Recruitment, Mint Personnel and Mint Consulting.
Mint Training
As a Nationally Registered Training Organisation, Mint Training delivers accredited training programs and targeted short courses that are specifically tailored to address attraction and retention of staff, skills training and career development.
Mint Personnel
For organisations seeking to reduce their direct labour costs and side-step current skills and labour shortages, Mint Personnel provides up to the minute and cost effective contract labour solutions.
Mint Recruitment
With competition for professional staff currently at an all-time high, Mint Recruitment delivers targeted recruitment solutions across the Asia Pacific region in a wide range of executive and non executive roles.
Mint Consulting
In response to current organisational challenges, Mint Consulting provides organisations with a strategic, and results focused HR consultancy service. From organisational change management through to aligning business objectives and values, Mint Consulting optimises organisational performance and productivity.
Further Information
For more information on how Mint Group can help your organisation, please visit www.mintgroup.com.au
SKILLED
Whether you are looking to engage a single apprentice or trainee, or skill an entire national workforce, SKILLED Group has the knowledge and expertise to develop practical and innovative solutions for your business.
Our position as Australia’s largest labour services provider is based on SKILLED Group’s unrivalled commitment to safety and a solid reputation built on more than 40 years’ experience.
We create an apprenticeship/traineeship program to suit the needs of your individual business and manage the whole process for you from employment, training, payroll, superannuation and workcover to performance management and issue resolution.
We manage a diverse portfolio of businesses, each with specialist staff and a defined market position. This allows us to focus our skills and our capabilities to best service the unique recruitment demands of the industries in which we operate. It also gives us flexibility to adapt our focus for emerging growth trends.
We take on the "employer" responsibilities and make it simple for you to employ apprentices and trainees by:
- listening to your individual needs
- tailoring a specific apprenticeship or traineeship program to suit
- covering wages, leave entitlements, public liability, pre-employment medicals, personal protective equipment and workplace OH&S review and education
- fully managing the apprenticeship or traineeship from:
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- attraction, recruitment and employment
- induction
- paperwork, payroll, superannuation and workcover
- performance management
- issue resolution
- training and training providers through to training contract and claims.
For more information call 1300 440 784 or visit the 'Skilled' website.
TAFE Development Centre
Raising the professional standing of the Victorian TAFE workforce
The TAFE Development Centre is a public company established in 2005 by the Hon. Lynne Kosky, formerly Minister for Education and Training, to promote the development and raise the professional standing of people working in Victorian TAFE Institutions.
The TAFE Development Centre is guided by a vision of a reinvigorated public system of TAFE providers enriched by educators, leaders and specialist staff who enjoy high status in the community and among their professional peers. This vision is based on the recognition that vocational education is a complex, challenging and dynamic field that requires a range of technical skills and draws on many areas of professional expertise.
In achieving this vision the Centre is committed to the development of staff in all
roles, the provision of high quality teacher education, the development of technical and vocational skills and increasing the leadership and management capability of the TAFE sector in general.
The Centre's activities contribute to the achievement of six key objectives:
- sponsoring ongoing development of TAFE staff in all roles
- facilitating the development of high quality initial and ongoing teacher education
- supporting the growth of educational leadership and management capability in TAFE
- promoting the use of professional standards for staff in specialist roles
- encouraging research into vocational teaching and learning
- facilitating information exchange and supporting partnerships at the state, national and international levels
Proud to be a part
The TAFE Development Centre is proud to be involved with the Victorian Training Awards and to be the principal sponsor of the Large Training Provider of the Year award.
"Development of staff in all roles, high quality initial and ongoing teacher education, and the growth of leadership and management capability".
For further information contact:
TAFE Development Centre
Level 1, 478 Albert Street
East Melbourne VIC 3002
Phone: (+61 3) 9250 6000
Email: tdc@tafecentre.vic.edu.au
Website: www.tafecentre.vic.edu.au
Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI)
The Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) is Victoria's most influential employer group, servicing over 15,000 Victorian businesses per annum. An independent, non-government body, VECCI was started by the business community to represent business.
Our membership base is diverse, with involvement from all levels and sectors of industry including: business services, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, tourism and emerging sectors.
We are involved in every facet of industry and commerce across the State, and our role is to represent the interests of business at a State level as well as nationally. We act as a sounding board for government decision-making and as an instrument of active lobbying.
VECCI has been working hard to raise employer and community awareness of the demographic, social and environmental challenges facing business, and the wider community, today.
For small businesses, education and training is essential to ensure they have the skilled workforce they require to succeed in today’s business environment of low unemployment and strong labour demand.
Education and training is also essential if small business is to improve its sustainable environmental practices and develop the expertise to meet future carbon management demands.
Our focus is clear – to lead business into the future. We help extend the reach of our members, customers and clients’ expertise, actively represent their needs in a complex regulatory climate, and provide real business value.
For more information, visit the VECCI website.
Victorian Skills Commission
The Victorian Skills Commission (VSC) was established in July 2007 by the Education and Training Reform Act 2006. The Commission continues the work of the Victorian Learning and Employment Skills Commission, which operated between 2001 and 2007 under the Vocational Education and Training Act 1990.
As Victoria's State training authority for the purposes of national agreements, the Commission administers funding for training and further education and regulates the Victorian apprenticeship and traineeship system.
The functions of the Commission include advising Government on the policy frameworks and planning for post-compulsory education and training and employment in Victoria. It also has a responsibility to monitor the outcomes of post-compulsory education and training for the purposes of economic and regional development, community development and social justice.
The Commission also supports local learning and employment networks of providers and stakeholders in post-compulsory education and training programs and services.
For more information, see the 'Victorian Skills Commission' website.
Victorian TAFE Association
The Victorian TAFE Association has a respected reputation as the peak employer body for public TAFE in Victoria and has as its members all Victorian TAFE Institutes, four Victorian universities with TAFE divisions, and AMES and CAE as Associate Members. Building and developing relationships and partnerships with communities, industries, businesses, and other educational institutions ensures the Victorian TAFE Association brings objective perspectives to the vocational education and training sector.
TAFE Institutes in Victoria receive in excess of $1.2 billion dollars per annum to provide vocational education and training related services to more than 369,000 students of all ages and backgrounds, for small and large enterprises and across all industries. In excess of 10,200 effective full-time staff are engaged in the delivery of vocational education and training in TAFE in Victoria. Training delivery includes apprenticeships and traineeships, training for members of Koorie communities and training related to Governments’ policies that address skills shortages and community needs. Education and training in TAFE institutes spans entry level through to Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Degree qualifications. Victorian TAFE institutes lead the way in commercial, entrepreneurial and innovation activities in vocational education and training.
The Association plays a critical role in advocating on behalf of the TAFE sector to both the State and Commonwealth Governments on key policy matters and provides advice on employee relations, human resource management, good governance practices and the development of the TAFE workforce to meet industry, community and individual needs.
The Victorian TAFE Association is proud to be a principal sponsor of the Victorian Training Awards.
For further information please visit the 'Victorian TAFE Association' website.
WPC Group
WPC Group is a leading provider of skills solutions to business and government.
We have more than 500 apprentices and trainees working with 200 host employers focused particularly on hospitality, automotive and engineering, horticulture and business administration.
Our approach is based on developing strong partnerships with host employers while mentoring and supporting young (and older) people through their apprenticeships and traineeships.
With more than 25 years experience, WPC Group has the track record to make sure we get each individual into the best apprenticeship or traineeship opportunity for them while ensuring we are also matching people to the particular needs of business and government employers.
WPC Group is proud of its apprentices and trainees and the contributions many are making in industry, business and government.
In 2009, WPC Group is continuing to strive to be the preferred partner of leading employers and attract a wider range of people to skilled careers.
We are developing innovative solutions to meet Australia’s skills shortage in changing economic times.
WPC Group has launched GreenSkills an initiative that aims to address the skill needs of businesses, organisations and government agencies that are addressing the growing demand for environmental goods and services.
With support from the Victorian government through Skills Victoria, WPC Group has developed a specialist program to support business, industry and government develop the skills needed to meet the requirements of this innovative and growing part of the economy.
WPC Group: A partner for industry, government and the community in meeting the skill needs of Australia.
For more information call 1300 656 461 or see the 'WPC Group' website.