Kaye Schofield
Independent Consultant
The Magic Umu? Open and distance learning in three Pacific Island countries
Kaye is one of Australia's leading independent commentators, researchers and policy analysts in the field of adult and vocational education. Since 1994, she has led and managed many influential assignments at national, State and Territory levels and has undertaken international assignments in USA, the Pacific and in South-East Asia.
Kaye facilitated the successful development of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework for Vocational Education and Training 2000-2004 and also the second Framework 2005-2007 and also facilitated the annual Business Plans to achieve the Framework goals. As Executive Director of the National Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training at the University of Technology Sydney, she led two substantial research projects in flexible/online learning.
Since 1999 she has undertaken a range of assignments in the Pacific for AusAID and NZAID, initially in Samoa and subsequently also in Kiribati and Papua New Guinea, and now works almost entirely in developing countries.
Before establishing her firm in 1994, she was the Chief Executive Officer of the South Australian Department of Labour, Public Works and Administrative Services and, before that, the CEO of the South Australian Department of Employment and TAFE following a successful career in TAFE college management in NSW.
Until recently, Kaye chaired the NSW Board of Adult and Community Education, the South Australian TAFE Board and was a member the NSW TAFE Board.
She holds an honorary appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology Sydney. In 1994 she received the National AUSTAFE Award for Educational Leadership in TAFE and in 1999 was awarded the College Medal by the Australian College of Education for her contribution to education and training over more than thirty years.
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