Queensland Skills Plan and Skilling Solutions Queensland

The Queensland Skills Plan represents a new approach to workforce skilling services based on customising training to help individuals meet their maximum working potential.

The state economy will also depend more heavily on the proportion of the working age population participating in the labour market, and the productivity of these workers.

In the past, the vocational education and training system has paid insufficient notice to the link between qualifications and actual jobs.

This has led to a limited understanding of the opportunities to build on entry-level vocational training as a career foundation.

The Queensland Government is committed to a new vocational education and training approach that better understands the different labour market needs of the system's clients.

This includes establishing 10 new sites for Skilling Solutions Queensland from 2006-07 to provide a face-to-face career and training information service.

Pending further evaluation of this new initiative, the Government will consider establishing up to seven more new sites from 2007-08 to ensure the service is available across the whole state.