06 Feb National Foundation Skills Strategy released
In December last year, DEWR released the new National Foundation Skills Strategy which sets a shared direction around literacy and numeracy for the next decade.
As part of the National Skills Agreement all governments agreed to work together to develop a National Foundation Skills Strategy 2025-2035.
The Strategy’s focus on building a sustainable Foundation Skills workforce and a collective understanding of literacy, numeracy and digital (LND) learners and their needs is particularly important for the sector.
An agreed action plan with funding of $53 million over five years will support activities nationally including:
- “work on communication activities to promote opportunities for foundation skills training and encourage people to seek support,
- establishing nationally agreed high level principles for foundation skills assessment
- a foundation skills workforce analysis
- updating components of the national foundation skills sector architecture.
Activities that support First Nations people will be an important part of the action plan, with a dedicated stream to support foundation skills training for First Nations people.”