Keeping it real - the Queensland VET Development Centre

Questions for discussion with industry1. What is your industry area and what is the size of your organisation (i.e. small, mediumor large)?2. What would you suggest are the best ways for vocational education and training (VET) trainersto maintain industry currency of technical skills and knowledge?3. What specific initiatives do you have or do you know of that assist VET trainers to maintainindustry currency?4. Do you think that training and assessing in the workplace maintains trainer industry currency?Why or why not? How?5. If there were no restrictions on time, funding or other resources, what would you do orencourage trainers to do to maintain industry currency?6. What are the benefits to your organisation of trainers maintaining industry currency?7. Would your organisation employ or host a trainer for a period, for example, 1-2 weeks to assistthem to maintain their industry currency? Why or why not?8. Are there any issues you can see with a trainer being hosted or employed in the workplace tomaintain their industry currency? If so, what are they9. Do you think that in your industry it is more beneficial for trainers on industry release to work inweek blocks or 1 day a week over a number of weeks? Why10. Are there any other issues in maintaining industry currency not covered in your answers to anyof the previous questions? If so, what are they?Questions for discussion with VET stakeholders1. In what type of organisation do you work? What is your role in your organisation?2. What do you think constitutes industry currency of technical skills and knowledge?3. What would you suggest are the best ways for VET trainers to maintain industry currency oftechnical skills and knowledge?4. What specific initiatives do you know of that assist VET trainers to maintain industry currency?5. Do you think that training and assessing in the workplace maintains trainer industry currency?Why or why not? How?6. If there were no restrictions on time, funding or other resources, what should trainers to do tomaintain industry currency?7. What are the benefits of trainers maintaining industry currency?8. Are there any other issues in maintaining industry currency not covered in your answers to anyof the previous questions? If so, what are they?28 Keeping it real