Industry & corporate training
VU Industry Connect provides industry and corporate training for your organisation through Victoria Plus, our corporate training entity.
We coordinate our interactions, engagement and partnerships with the professions, industry, government and the community. We provide industry with a front door to the skills, services and resources available at Victoria University.
In particular, VU Industry Connect leads, coordinates and drives engagement with industry through the delivery of quality industry training, consultancy and research.
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Our focus
Our team of industry consultants will work with your organisation to identify education, training and consultancy solutions to meet the needs of your organisation.
We draw on significant experience in industry based education to ensure our products and services are targeted, outcomes-focused, and able to drive increased productivity and engagement within your business.
VU Industry Connect is focused on linking and connecting you to the right people so you can meet your organisation's strategic requirements.
Our interface with industry operates at four levels:
- engagement & business development
- industry planning & product development
- delivery of industry training & consultancy
- innovation & intellectual property.
Engagement & business development
Our engagement & business development team will work with your organisation to negotiate and broker industry training and consultancy solutions or link you to research opportunities.
Our team have a high-level understanding of our suite of products and services, and will work with you to assist you in navigating the complexities of accredited and non-accredited training and funding opportunities.
Our team is focused on engagement and relationships – building long-term partnerships that support and promote growth, opportunity and innovation within our organisations.
Industry product development
Our industry product development team will work directly with you and your organisation to customise our accredited and non-accredited programs and ensure they meet the needs of your organisational needs.
Our industry training products incorporate the following features:
- flexible, modular, building-block delivery with multiple entry and exit points
- mix of accredited and non-accredited training with optional assessment
- experiential learning underpinned by mentoring and coaching
- industry-based delivery, projects and assessments
- high quality eLearning and blended delivery
- embedded language, literacy and numeracy to maximise success
- industry skills recognition (RPL).
Industry & corporate training & consultancy via Victoria Plus
We'll connect you with the most appropriate delivery area of the University so that experts from industry and academia deliver corporate and industry training to your staff.
Delivery may take place through Victoria Plus, our dedicated corporate training entity, or through VU's discipline-specific Academic colleges.
Our delivery staff have extensive experience, bringing an appropriate mix of theory and application into your workplace through innovation and training.
Our training and consultancy is supported by a set of evaluative metrics focused on providing feedback to clients on engagement, impact, productivity, return on investment and recommendations for future workforce development initiatives.
Contact us
Contact us to find out more about how we can assist your organisation through the delivery of quality industry training, consultancy and research.
Email: industryconnect@vu.edu.au
Phone: 1800 426 663
Grant Dreher
Vice President, Knowledge Exchange, Industry and Skills
Phone: + 61 3 9919 8603
grant.dreher@vu.edu.au
Rachel Simmons
Director, VU Industry Connect
Phone: + 61 3 9919 1170
rachel.simmons@vu.edu.au
Sue Marshall
General Manager, Victoria Plus
Phone: +61 3 9919 1819
sue.marshall@vu.edu.au