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10.2.2 Curriculum Services
This Unit has had a very busy year with an increase in the number of applications to the Training Accreditation Council (TAC) on
behalf of the College and the Curriculum Services and Support Network (CSSN). The total number of applications to TAC in 2006
was 263, compared with 122 in 2005 and 151 in 2004.
These comprised:
• accreditation of courses: 13
• extensions of accreditation: 18
• registration of qualifi cations within existing scope: 69
• extensions to the Scope of Registration: 10
• changes to delivery locations [additions and deletions]: 53
• formal removal of qualifi cations from scope: 100
Curriculum Services has also provided support for the update of information in the Products and Services Catalogue [PSC] that is
the main source of on-line course information for prospective students.
The Primary Industry and Personal Services CSSN is located above the library in Beaconsfi eld. The CSSN provides advice and
curriculum support to a State-wide network encompassing 33 industry areas in WA. Key activities this year have included:
• re-accreditation of the New Opportunities for Women; Wider Opportunities for Work; and Gaining Access to Training and
Employment access and participation courses on behalf of the WA Department of Education and Training
• an outreach program to enable visits and a professional development program for regional and remote colleges
• implementation of Trade Reforms in Hairdressing and Primary Industry
10.3 Business Services
Business Services supports and enables Challenger TAFE’s core business to provide high quality training delivery services to
industry, the community and individuals.
The following activities formed the core of Business Services work for 2006:
• implementation of the Challenger TAFE Sustainability Action Plan;
• implementation of the Workforce Management Strategy
• implementation of the Risk Management Program
• implementation of assets management
• exercising a watching brief on the major capital works programs projects involving, Kwinana Automotive Centre and the
Australian Centre for Energy and Process Training
• Coordinating the College roll-out of Voice Over Internet Protocol telephony
• re-engineering local services in response to the migration of Finance and Human Resources functions to Shared Services.
10.3.1 Human Resource Management and Development
This area of College activity responds to four Challenger TAFE strategic goals:
• providing industry driven training and related services to skill the workforce;
• building and maintaining a viable training organisation in a competitive global training market;
• being an employer of choice, and
• continuously improving our business processes.
Important outcomes during 2006 were:
• successfully transferring operational processes such as payroll into the Education and Training Shared Services Centre;
• implementing a new chemical inventory management system (ChemWatch);
• revising the Challenger TAFE Staff Diversity and Equity Plan;
• developing new recruitment documentation for senior managers, in line with the Government’s Leadership
Capability Framework;
• developing an Indigenous Recruitment Program with the College’s Kadadjiny Mia Centre for Aboriginal Learning, and
• conducting the annual College awards program, which recognises the importance of roles and voluntary efforts of more than
100 employees in such essential activities as fi re wardens and fi rst aid offi cers.