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Total VET Activity and what it means for future planning
Dr Craig Fowler Managing Director
ACPET 2015 National Conference27 August 2015
TVA
‘A first national collection’‘A view to the future’
What is Total VET Activity?
The first attempt to collect data on all training activity in Australia’s VET system.
Previous data collections were restricted to government-funded training activity.
Government-funded and fee-for-service accredited* VET delivered by:
•TAFE institutes and other government providers
•Multi-sector higher education institutions
•Community education providers
•Enterprise providers
•Private registered training providers
•Schools and other providers delivering VET in Schools programs
•Australian VET institutions delivering VET at overseas campuses
* But not all activity eg recreation, leisure and personal enrichment, credit transfer
What does TVA cover?
Why TVA? – RTO obligation
• AVETMISS data reporting to meet Clause 7.5 in the Standards for RTOs:
“The RTO provides accurate and current information on its performance and governance consistent with the Data Provision Requirements (2012) ..”
• Only government-funded activity for private RTOs was reported prior to the introduction of TVA.
Pre-TVA reporting scope for private RTOs
Overseas delivery
Governmentfunded
Inter-national fee-for-service
Domestic fee-for-service
• Under TVA, all training activity is reported
TVA reporting scope for private RTOs
Governmentfunded
Overseas delivery
What is the TVA reporting scopeacross system?
Delivery at
overseas campus
Delivery at
overseas campus
DomesticFee-for-service
DomesticFee-for-service
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Delivery at
overseascampus
Delivery at
overseascampus
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Domestic Fee-for-service
Domestic Fee-for-service
Delivery at
overseas campus
Delivery at
overseas campus
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Domestic Fee-for-service
Domestic Fee-for-service
Delivery at
overseas campus
Delivery at
overseas campus
Govern-ment
funding
Govern-ment
funding
Govern-ment
funding
Govern-ment
funding
Govern-ment
funding
Govern-ment
funding
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Inter-national Fee-for-service
Domestic Fee-for-service
Domestic Fee-for-service
Govern-ment
funding
Govern-ment
funding
TAFEs Other government providers
Community education providers
Other register providers
Total VET Activity only
Government-funded and Total VET Activity
What happened in 1st ‘transition’ year?
• 2014 first year that RTOs were mandated to report their training activity in early 2015
• ~500 RTOs were granted an exemption from submitting 2014 data
• Not all RTOs were ready to submit
• Some RTOs were confused about what to submit due to different reporting arrangements:
• By funding source• By state
Enterprise RTO
TAFE
RTOC’wlth NCVERSTA n=1STA n=1STA n=1STA n=8
Fee-for-service VET data
Public VETdata
PortalPortal
Data collection overview
INFRASTRUCTURE
PROCESS
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NCVER’s role in supporting TVA• Manage the VET data Standard (AVETMISS)• Communicate reporting requirements
• Collection coordinator
• Client support• phone and email
• Ancillary support materials (FAQs, webinars, fact sheets, user guides, Data support bulletin)
• AVETMISS compliant software register
• AVETMISS validation software• Data Entry Tool• Data warehouse
• From January 2015, NCVER has responded to over 9,000 requests for assistance
Help desk
5,800 telephone calls 3,600 email enquiries
• AVETMISS Validation Software: – 3,881 registered users– 5,679 queries handled 5 Jan to 30 June 2015
o validation errors, registration/ user roles
• AVETMISS: – 2,078 queries handled 5 Jan to 30 June 2015
o Reporting requirements, deadlineso Reporting process
• AVETMISS Data Entry Tool:– 667 registered users– 500 queries handled 5 Jan to 30 Jun 2015
o Process, how to fix validation errors in DET
HELPDESK STATS - top categories
It took six months to collect 2014 TVA data
•Submission window opened on 2 January 2015
•The due date for submissions was:– 28 February 2015 for direct data submissions– 31 March 2015 for STAs
•Window closed on 19 May 2015
•Window reopened at ASQA’s request on 18 June 2015
•Collection finally closed on 25 June 2015
Timeliness – ‘longer than planned’
What training providers reported data?
• Did RTOs submit all their training?– Some RTOs may have only submitted their government-
funded data or VET in Schools data– Needs future review and ASQA/NCVER audit– It is known that some TAFEs have not reported their
overseas training activity
• Is there duplication?– NCVER took the last submission from each data submitter– NCVER ran a de-duplication process within STA
submissions and between direct RTO and VET in Schools submissions
• Data quality – ‘validation’ at submission not perfect
How complete is ‘total’ VET activity?
• ‘Old View Point’ – ‘Students and Courses’– Meeting largely ‘state and territory needs’– Driven by largely a ‘public-fund-source’ paradigm– Emerging consumer use eg My Skills– Accountability and performance measures for funding
• ‘New Hill Top’ – ‘TVA’ (and in 2016 linked with USI)– Details national VET effort and markets/products– Performance analysis supports ‘risk-based’ regulation– USI-linked transcript service – Wider/deeper information for consumers eg My Skills– Sampling frame for national student surveys/census– Better informed planning and funding for skills/jobs– More information for and about providers and VET market – New accountability and performance approaches eg linked data
Planning – ‘A view to the future’
• State or territory of training delivery location– The state or territory where training physically took place.– For online/remote access training, based on the physical location of
the provider offering training.
• State or territory of student residence– The state or territory where student usually resides– International fee-for-service students coded to ‘overseas’– Bear in mind, significant proportions may travel interstate for
training, e.g. between NSW and the ACT
• State or territory of the RTO– The state or territory where the head office of the training provider is
located.– Primarily used to report program completions (together with state of
student residence) as state/territory of delivery is not available for completions data.
– Bear in mind, increasingly large cross-jurisdictional RTOs
TVA and USI into the future• Good quality data for a VET transcript service
• Resolving ‘transparency vs privacy/commerciality’– ‘identified vs ‘de-identified, confidentialised, aggregate’– understanding and trust about access/release of data
• All stakeholders experience net benefits not burden– frequency of submission and routing of data– simple-for-user yet sophisticated national VET
information management systems– data standards/updates are agile, improve quality – prompt, on-line and informative reports and analyses
But courage to get to the ‘future’ …
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