September 02, 2004
Building Box Hill Insitute
On Thursday 19th August I visited Box Hill Insitute in Victoria with Roger Parry and Brian Gepp of Douglas Mawson Institute in SA. We met with Peter in Building Studies who outlined how they are gradually changing their practices in response to industry needs.
There is now one trainer from Building & Construction who is dedicated to workplace visits and assessments and the demand is gradually growing from industry. Building industry growth is creating huge demand for training across the three states talking together that morning - similar issues of tracking apprentices and grappling with flexibility exist. This confirmed my belief that without administrative processes and system that can adapt and change, flexibility in training and assessment will place loads on teachers that are not sustainable. When you scale from 20 to 200 workplace trainees, a 'workaround' system and processes can turn into chaos. Not that I saw that at Box Hill mind you! Just a comment on the need for scalability and systems to support not drive processes.
Posted by Kirsty at September 2, 2004 05:09 PM