The Queensland Fitness, Sport and Recreation Skills Alliance (previously Recreation Training Queensland) has been supporting our industry since 1994.
Our support has spanned education, training and workforce development.
Over this period we have produced many significant and tangible outcomes for industry. As we have been working largely behind the scenes, some people remain unware of our achievements and outcomes against those achieved by the industry itself.
We have:
- Provided training advice and promoted training products and pathways to over 800 industry enterprises, with substantial consultancy-level advice provided to a mix of over 150 industry enterprises and training organisations (many on a multiple basis).
- Established and supported relationships between key industry, training provider and government entities at various levels for education and training delivery purposes.
- Negotiated and currently facilitate a state-wide Skills Formation Strategy for the industry. This strategy helps industry to identify and tackle major skilling issues.
- Produced skilling reports on an annual basis that have influenced government Vocational Education & Training allocations for the industry.
- Based on government provided data, secured increases in the industry’s government-funded education and training allocation from 301,750 to 1,617,489 contact hours for the period 1996 to 2006.
- Instigated industry traineeships in Queensland, and through promotional activities, increased traineeship take-up rates.
- Developed, sought funding for and project-managed a number of innovative employment programs for the industry. Examples include school-based traineeship projects for high level junior athletes, and employment programs for clients classified as 'at risk'.
- Provided industry technical advice as part of 185 quality audits of Registered Training Organisations.
- Facilitated (across all four sectors) industry input into the development and maintenance of national industry training packages, since their inception into this industry circa 2000.
- Chaired and participated in course accreditation processes for Certificate I through to Diploma (curriculum-based) qualifications, prior to the development of national Training Packages.
- Developed and distributed a range of industry assessment, workforce development and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) resources.
- Commissioned the development of mapping guides, which identified the relationships between Training Package qualifications and other existing training courses. These guided RPL and credit transfer arrangements.
- Developed and continue to maintain a range of online information products, including a careers portal, a training provider register and an Australian Quality Training Framework partnership resource.
In achieving these outcomes we gratefully acknowledge the ongoing funding and support of the Queensland Government.