Edition 534, 25 November 2013
National
- ACPET launches DVD for employers in Tasmania
- Congratulations Leah!
- Congratulations to one of ACPET’s Health Check consultants
- Last day to register! Leveraging media on a budget
- Limited spots available - Using Moodle to manage your blended learning
- Designing high quality assessment tools: tricks of the trade
- Now a webinar! Understanding the VET Quality Framework for Administration Staff
- Running your RTO business from anywhere
- New webinar: Unpacking a training package and units of competency
- Last one for 2013: How to make VET relevant
- New webinar session: Integrate Language and literacy support into your delivery and assessment
- Last PD webinar in 2013! Developing a compliant business improvement process
- Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practitioner Scholarships Program
- Dual student expos in Jakarta - join the January 2014 ACPET mission
- Stepping up RTO LLN capabilities: RTO candidates chosen to participate in national mentoring LLN project
In Focus
Featured
- Wow - what a great bunch of winners
- Positive audits & the ACPET catalogue
- Launch of the ACPET Catalogue App
What's On
- Register for TCCI Skills Forum - Hobart 3 December
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in SA
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in NSW
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in the ACT
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in WA
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in NT
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in Queensland
- Participate in the National Energy Efficient Buildings Project in Tasmania
- You're invited to ACPET Tasmania's End of year celebration 16 December
- ACPET PD Hobart - How to submit an application for a qualification to scope - 5 Dec
- ACPET PD Hobart - Understanding the VET Quality framework for admin staff
- You're invited to ACPET SA's End of year celebration 6 December
- RTO Info Day on Transition to new Training Package standards - Launceston, 16 December
- National Energy Efficient Buildings Project, Victoria - Tues 26 Nov
- Dual student expos in Jakarta - join the January 2014 ACPET mission
International Engagement
- ACPET led delegation heads to India
- ICEF Berlin 2013
- Dual student expos in Jakarta - join the January 2014 ACPET mission
Domestic Policy Matters
- LLN Practitioner scholarships now open
- Seeking your feedback: VET Graduation Statement
- Your thoughts on indigenous education and training needed
More updates in your state
- Queensland (9)
- Northern Territory (6)
- South Australia (6)
- Western Australia (8)
- Tasmania (11)
- New South Wales (8)
- Australian Capital Territory (7)
- Victoria (8)
Supporting our leaders to lead
Monday, November 25 2013
High-level, educational leaders in tertiary education and training across Australia - no less than anyone else - need professional development support so they can take their leadership into new realms where their organisations can grow, renew, flourish, and expand into new markets.
Almost without our realising it, a whole new generation of educational leadership has emerged over the past 20 years: people who mostly started out as classroom teachers, took their educational vision and expertise out on the road, set up their own educational organisations and emerged as leaders of multi-million dollar educational organisations and as leaders in educational thought leadership, both here in Australia and globally.
We call this ‘educational entrepreneurship’. And ACPET is enormously proud to count so many of Australia's leading educational entrepreneurs among its members.
Last weekend’s inaugural ACPET CEO’s Executive Retreat, which I was proud to attend, took place with a select group of ACPET leaders at Sydney’s picturesque Coogee Beach.
This event was the first of its kind for ACPET and brought together CEOs in a confidential and relaxing environment for high-level, peer-on-peer learning and sharing.
In pioneering this professional development event for ACPET, we realised that in putting our all into supporting the whole private education and training sector, we do at times ‘miss bits’. And a rather important ‘bit’ is our CEOs, whose own needs can get forgotten.
We heard loudly and clearly from our participating CEOs just how busy they are and how ACPET membership is, and more importantly can improve, to support them and their businesses.
So it was tremendously pleasing that our CEOs endorsed the range of products and services ACPET has developed to meet member needs, especially over the past 18 months.
We also heard clearly (to borrow words from one participant) that ‘I’m so busy with my head down running the business, I need to get my head up and look around‘. There’s no doubt that our leaders also need support and practical solutions to help them keep up to speed on what’s happening in the sector and must-know policy developments.
The Retreat certainly achieved that.
Here's to the first of many more ACPET CEO and Executive activities.
Claire Field
Chief Executive Officer
