Final report
The ACT Skills Commission Final Report is now available for download as a PDF or Word document.
Purpose
The idea of the ACT Skills Commission arose from the ACT Skills Solutions Workshop that was convened in April 2006 by the Canberra Partnership Board, chaired by Professor Ian Chubb. A commitment to establishing the ACT Skills Commission was then announced in the ACT Government's 2006–07 Budget speech.
The ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope announced the membership and draft Terms of Reference for the new ACT Skills Commission on Thursday 9 November 2006.
Terms of Reference
The Skills Commission will:
- Provide high level, strategic advice to the Government on skills issues and the strategies required to meet the ACT's skills needs now and into the future;
- In developing its advice and strategies, consult with stakeholders including business, the community sector, employees, students, education providers and the broader ACT community; and
- Advise of strategies to draw together the stakeholders so that enduring and systemic solutions are progressed to address skills issues.
The Commission is expected to focus on five themes:
- Developing local talent – maximising the impact of existing ACT skills training and education;
- Attraction and retention strategies – advice on domestic and international skills attraction strategies, inward investment attraction with a people dimension and the marketing of Canberra as a place to work and live;
- Areas of acute short and strategic importance – Information and Communication Technology skills is likely to be one of the first areas that will be looked at by a Commission working group;
- Community interest – ensuring broader community issues, such as underemployment, assisting those wishing to enter the workforce to do so, and the ageing of the population are addressed; and
- ACT Skills Futures – going beyond fixing current issues to identify and respond to expected future skills issues.
