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These pages contain the original text of the Tertiary Education Strategy documents. Only edit content if you notice the text is inconsistent with the final published document. Feel free to develop your own cross references and index structure. Industries are supported in meeting their self-identified skill needs
Providers, in particular polytechnics and ITOs, will have a leading role in identifying the nation’s skill needs for the future. This will be an important element in national and local skills-matching efforts. ITOs will have taken strategic leadership roles in their industries and will be planning for the future training needs of their industries and promoting training to meet those needs. Delivery of skills training and assessment by ITOs will be innovative and flexible, well connected to the rest of the system, and will meet the needs of trainees, apprentices and businesses. By 2007, the benefits of learning in the workplace will have been extended to employees in as many industries as possible. It will be far easier for small and medium-sized businesses to access workforce development, and industry training will have been extended to industries and enterprises where there is currently no formal training culture. Training, whether off-job learning in a polytechnic or PTE or on-job learning and assessment arranged by an ITO, or provided through institution-style courses, will be highly accessible and will respond to the skill needs of industry and employees. Employers and employees will be more prepared to co-invest in skill development and will see training and upskilling as a natural aspect of employment. This investment will ‘pay off’, as the workforce becomes more flexible and productive. « Objective 18 | Index | Objective 20 » |
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