VET Leadership alive not static
“There is a myth in the VET sector that most of its current leaders have been there forever and are likely to stay on indefinitely in their current positions. Interestingly, sixty per cent of the more than 200 VET leaders who responded to a recent major survey have been in their current position for three years or less. And they learnt to be leaders elsewhere: nearly seventy per cent of the survey respondents have held a leadership role outside of VET".
"Nor do they all expect to stay in their current jobs. Just over half of the sample indicated that they intended to apply for another VET leadership role in the next five years".
These are a few of the many findings from the national survey of VET leadership commissioned by the L H Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management and administered by the Australian Centre for Educational Research (ACER).”
The above are extracts from an early release of John Mitchell’s ‘Inside VET' column in Campus Review based on an interview with Professor Lynn Meek, Director of the LH Martin Institute.
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The initial results of the study will be presented at public workshops, VET Leaders in Times of Change held in four capital cities during November 2009. These workshops will inspire VET leaders and will enhance “the professionalisation of leadership within the sector”.