Delivering The Right Skills Strategy
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Queensland’s progress, prosperity and wellbeing rely on having the right skills in the right place at the right time.
The Right Skills Strategy focuses on building Queensland’s skilled workforce to support a strong and diverse economy.
We are investing more than $5 billion over 4 years to strengthen Queensland’s training sector.
We are focused on improving availability and access to the skills industries and regions need to grow and thrive.
The Right Skills Strategy is Queensland's plan to deliver on the National Skills Agreement. We will work with the Australian Government to build stronger partnerships and achieve lasting skills reform.
Each year, we will release an annual plan outlining how we will deliver on the longer-term objectives of The Right Skills Strategy. Read the Training Priorities Plan 2025-2026.
The right skills for Queensland’s economy
Queensland has the right skills to attract investment and to power prosperity and productivity.
- Our training solutions will empower industries and employers across Queensland’s diverse regions.
- Industry-led solutions, such as micro-credentials and non-accredited training, more rapidly respond to changing and emerging skill needs.
- Focus investment on high-demand sectors, such as health and construction.
- Provide targeted, responsive training aligned to workforce and industry needs.
- Ensure that training priorities meet Queensland’s current and emerging skill needs.
- Invest in advanced training to lift Queenslanders’ overall skill profile.
- Provide pathways to university and other learning opportunities.
- Respond to the economy’s higher-level skill needs and improve competitiveness.
- Secure a pipeline of highly skilled workers.
- Improve how people view careers delivered by vocational education and training.
- Invest in training that is high quality and industry relevant.
- Support and enable employer and industry-led initiatives that increase workforce attraction, retention and capability.
- Maximise outcomes from Queensland’s investment in skills and training.
Measures of success
- Productivity growth is improved by a more skilled workforce, matched to labour demand.
- Industries, including in critical and emerging areas, can access and develop the skilled workforce they need.
- Skills and training activity is aligned to workforce demand.
The right skills for Queenslanders
Queenslanders have the right skills to secure a job and their economic security.
- Strengthen foundation and employability skills.
- Provide access to a first qualification helping Queenslanders enter employment.
- Make training information easier to access.
- Provide more support for students to complete their training and transition to work.
- Enable Queenslanders to upskill or reskill throughout their careers.
- Support continuous learning to keep pace with rapid change and high-demand jobs.
- Engage young Queenslanders in training and employment.
- Offer clear pathways to meaningful skills and job opportunities.
- Invest in supported pathways and targeted training for priority cohorts.
- Ensure all Queenslanders can participate fully in the workforce by gaining skills.
Measures of success
- Queenslanders, including priority groups, are able to build the skills needed for well-paid, secure jobs that match their interests.
- Queenslanders have the skills that allow them to adapt in their work and life now and in the future.
- Learning supports and pathways are accessible and effective, and meet the diversity of learner needs and objectives, including for priority groups.
The right skills delivered by a robust training system
Queensland has a healthy, diverse and high-quality training system that delivers the right skills for the workforce.
- Invest in modern, purpose-built TAFE infrastructure across the state.
- Build the training workforce to address skills shortages across Queensland.
- Strengthen training access and outcomes in regional Queensland and for emerging and speciality industries.
- support the coordination, delivery and quality of government funded training across TAFE, private and not-for-profit training providers.
- Use data and performance measurement to guide investment and improve training quality.
- Improve links between vocational training and higher education.
- Work towards a more integrated, flexible system that meets higher-skill needs and supports a dynamic economy.
Measures of success
- Training courses are trusted, relevant and available at the right time.
- Training delivery is of a consistently high quality and provides a positive learner experience, including for priority groups.
- System governance advances stewardship of an effective and efficient Queensland vocational education and training system, which strengthens partner participation and ensures system sustainability.
More information
- Read the Training Priorities Plan 2025-2026.
- Read our frequently asked questions.
- Check out our Real Skills stories.
- Subscribe to Queensland Jobs and Skills Connect for monthly updates.
- Get the promotional kit to help share The Right Skills Strategy with your networks.
Contact us
Phone: 1300 369 935