TDA: Conferences

MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2006

4.00pm Conference registration

4.00–6.00pm Exhibition booths open

6.00–7.30pm Welcome Cocktail Reception: Greetings from TDA Chair Barry Peddle to welcome delegates and VIPs

Official Welcome: The Honourable Mike Rann MP, Premier of South Australia

7.30pm The Honourable Kim Beazley MP, Patron of the Mick Young Scholarship Trust, presenting the Inaugural Mick Young Oration – TAFE Regency International Centre Auditorium, Adelaide [DOC 74kb]

TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2006

8.00am Conference registration and exhibition booths open

9.00am Official Greetings: Ros Cheales, TAFE SA Executive Director

MC: Martin Riordan, Executive Director, TAFE Directors Australia

Barry Peddle, Chair, TAFE Directors Australia – ‘Welcome to the 2006 National Conference’

Hon Paul Caica MP, SA Minister for Employment, Training & Further Education; Minister for Youth; Minister for Gambling; Member of the Executive Council

Madam Zhu Xiaoyu, Minister Counsellor of Education, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Australia – ‘Welcome to China Delegates’

9.30am Facilitated Panel: TAFE as a Business – For Industry and Community

MC: Martin Riordan, Executive Director, TAFE Directors Australia

Brian Van Bueren, Western Business Region Manager, Honeywell Ltd – Joint Venture Partner to the Oil & Gas Institute, Challenger TAFE WA [PPT 2.14Mb]

David Hind, President Designate, Business Higher Education Roundtable, and formerly Chair of the ANTA Board, Managing Director, South Pacific, BOC Limited [DOC 54kb]

10.30am Skilling Australia – Through the COAG Engine Room

MC: Wayne Collyer, Deputy Chair, TAFE Directors Australia and CEO, Swan TAFE WA

Jenny Macklin, MP, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Education, Science & Training

Jim Davidson, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education, Science & Training [PPT 378kb]

Brian Cunningham, Chief Executive, Department of Further Education, Employment, Science & Technology, SA [DOC 82kb]

11.15am MORNING COFFEE BREAK: Sponsored by Group Training Australia

TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2006: CONCURRENT PROGRAM

11.45am

Facilitated Panel: Back Office – Big Value

MC: Kevin Harris, Director, TAFE NSW Northern Sydney Institute

Peter Langkamp, Chief Executive Officer, Callista Software

12.15pm

Facilitated Panel: Podcasting in Education – Reaching your learner clients with relevant content delivered anywhere, anytime

MC: Kevin Harris, Director, TAFE NSW Northern Sydney Institute

Greg Egan, State Director, SA and NT, Apple Inc

12.45pm

LUNCH: Showcase of Apple Podcast Technologies

Workshops

Workforce Planning and Development [1]

Industry and Community Engagement

Australia–China Dialogue International Opportunities [3]

1.45pm

MC: Denise O’Brien, Chief Executive Officer, Wodonga Institute of TAFE

Dr Wanda Korndorffer, Chief Executive Officer, TAFE Development Centre, Vic [PPT 1.25Mb]

Wendy Perry, Managing Director, Wendy Perry & Associates and David Morgan, Managing Director, The Work Lab [PPT 1.27Mb]

Questions/Discussion Time

MC: Jeanie Herbert Institute Director, Bachelor Institute

Queensland Industry Engagement Case Study

John Cassebohm Exec Officer Food, Tourism and Hospitality Skills Council, Peter Graves - Director Strategon, Lindsey Bridges - Industry Consultant

Lend Lease, Sydney Institute of TAFE – Case Study – Bronwyn Bennett and Adrien Meredith

Questions/Discussion Time

MC: Martin Riordan, Executive Director, TAFE Directors Australia

Linda Laker, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Australian Education International [PPT 662kb]

Antoine Barnaart, Australian Team Leader, Australia–China (Chongqing) VET Project; Mr Zhang Xiaoyi, Deputy Principal Long Men Hao Secondary VET School, Chongqing China [PPT 2.196Mb]

Questions/Discussion Time

3.15pm

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK

Workshops

Workforce Planning and Development [4]

Industry and Community Engagement [5]

International Opportunities [6]

3.45–4.45pm

MC: Stephen Conway, Director, Educational Programs & Services, TAFE SA

Suzy McKenna, National Project Director, Reframing the Future – ‘How Networking Develops Engagement’ [PPT 2.68Mb]

Linda Simon, President, Australian Education Union – ‘TAFE Futures 2006 National Report’ [DOC 38kb]

Questions/Discussion Time

MC: David Williams, Executive Director, Victorian TAFE Association

Alan Tidswell, HR Manager, One-Steel at Whyalla and Vice Chair of the Regional Institute Council

John Italiano, Senior Executive Director, Box Hill Institute of TAFE and John Price, CEO, NIIT Technologies – Box Hill’s collaboration with NIIT Technologies [PPT in full 5.71Mb; In part: PPT Part 1 2.59Mb, PPT Part 2 4.46Mb, PPT Part 3 1.35Mb]

Bob Paton, Manufacturing Industry Skills Council, working with TAFE and Sharon Coates, Innovation ISC on new framework project [PPT 440kb]

Questions/Discussion Time

MC: Noel Lyons, Executive Director, International, Box Hill Institute

‘Managing Offshore Projects: Lessons from Chongqing’

Virginia Battye, Australian Project Director, ACCVETP

Gordon Dickson, International Manager, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

Questions/Discussion Time

NATIONAL TAFE STUDENT SHOWCASE

5.00–5.15pm

Exhibition booths close [Coaches depart TAFE SA Regency Campus for TAFE SA Adelaide Centre for the Arts]

6.00pm

Welcome drinks at TAFE SA Adelaide Centre for the Arts

7.00pm

Fashion Parade: Students’ Showcase hosted by TAFE Directors Australia

New Media Showcase: Launch of the TAFE Australia New Media show-reel of highlights of student submissions from around Australia and Multimedia Awards presented

WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2006

8.30am Exhibition booths open

9.00am Quality & Reform: Toward a New Skills Agenda

MC: Stella Axarlis, Chair, National Quality Council

John Keniry, Chair, Institute of Trade Skills Excellence [PPT 170kb]

Tim Reardon, Executive Director, Careers & Skills, Housing Industry Association – ‘2 Year Apprenticeship Scheme’ [PPT in full 6.29Mb; In part: PPT Part 1 1.84Mb, PPT Part 2 1.38Mb]

Barry Peddle, Chair, TAFE Directors Australia – ‘10 Point Plan for Reform’

10.15am Break

10.25am Youth Engagement Strategies

MC: Aaron Devine, Director, VET, Charles Darwin University, NT

Bruce MacKenzie, Deputy Chair, TAFE Directors Australia – ‘The Trade Diploma Concept’ [PPT 57kb] and Andrew Adamson, Principal, Holmesglen Vocational College – ‘Holmesglen Vocational College: A New Upper Secondary Vocational Option’ [PPT 7.02Mb]

Marie Persson, Deputy Director-General, TAFE and Community Education, NSW Department of Education & Training [DOC 52kb]

11.25am MORNING COFFEE BREAK: Courtesy Spotless Catering

11.45am

Innovation in Leadership

& Learning [7]

Skilling Australia TDA – 10 Point Plan [8]

International Opportunities [9]

MC: Dr Ruth Schubert, General Manager, TAFE SA

Nancye Stanelis, Chief Operating Officer, Education.au – ‘Learning Technologies: A Futures Perspective’

Robyn Sainsbery, Senior Manager, Leadership & Management Development Unit, Canberra Institute of Technology Technology – ‘Stepping Off: An Organisational Perspective’

Questions/Discussion Time

Closed Session to TDA Members Only

MC: Sue Slavin, Managing Director, West Coast College of TAFE

Barry Peddle to lead review of the TAFE Directors Australia submission to COAG 2006

MC: Ros Cheales, Director, TAFE SA

Ms Meridan Biziak, Acting Director, Student Policy Section, Temporary Entry Branch, Department of Immigration & Multicultural Affairs – ‘Feedback from the DIMA Student Client Service Survey & Visa Requirements Relating to the ESOS Code’

Stewart Thomas, Branch Manager, Workplace Programs Branch, Department of Employment & Workplace Relations – ‘Offshore Assessment Centres Initiative 2007’

Questions/Discussion Time

12.45pm

LUNCH: TAFE Regency International Centre

1.45pm

MC: Adrian Marron, Executive Director, TAFE SA

Ministerial Address: Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs – ‘Skilled Migration, and International Students in the VTE Market’

2.35pm

COAG Leadership: Hopes, Dreams and Reality 2006–07

MC: Kaye Bowman - Consultant

Professor Gerald Burke, Executive Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) [PPT 109kb]

Malcolm Goff, Chief Executive Officer, TVET Australia Ltd [PPT 1.28Mb]

Jim Davidson, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education, Science & Training [PPT 217kb]

Marie Persson, Deputy Director-General, TAFE & Community Education, NSW Department of Education & Training

Dr Tom Karmel, Managing Director, NCVER

Australian VTE Sector Leadership Panel Discussion – Opportunities for COAG February meeting of the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers, February 2007

3.45–4.00pm

Plenary Wrap: Barry Peddle, Institute Director, TAFE NSW South Western Sydney Institute and Martin Riordan, Executive Director, TAFE Directors Australia

TAFE Directors Australia hosts conferences annually. Previous conferences include: