Clients 2008-2009Clients of John Mitchell & Associates in 2008-2009 include:
Sample assignments in 2008-2009
Sample assignments in 2006-2007 Consultant to WA DET on training needs of small business, Feb-April 2007
Consultant to National Quality Council on employability skills, October 2006-Dec 2007
Consultant to Victoria University on teaching and learning, Aug-Dec 2007
Author of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in VET and Ideas for Practitioners and lead author of New Leadership for Innovative Organisations www.ibsa.org.au/jma
Lead author of publications for Reframing the Future, Human Capital Enhanced by VET and How VET enhances human capital – 31 examples and New Capabilities in VET www.reframingthefuture.net
Joint author of RPL Done Well in VET and Professional Judgement in VET www.reframingthefuture.net
Consultant to national staff development program Reframing the Future on strategic and change management, networks and communities of practice
Consultant to the NSW BVET 2007 project on ACE-TAFE in the Western Region of NSW
Consultant for the BVET 2006 project on the Gwydir Learning Region
Consultant to the following TAFE Institutes on strategic and change management and innovation: Challenger TAFE WA; West Coast College of TAFE, WA; Swinburne University TAFE Division; RMIT; Box Hill TAFE; Western Sydney TAFE
Consultant to the following ACE colleges on strategic and change management: St George and Sutherland Community College; Western College Dubbo
Consultant for ACE provider, Western Community College at Dubbo, preparing the business plan for an Australian Technical College
Researcher Sept-Nov 2006 for Victoria’s TAFE Development Centre project on innovation at the following eight TAFE Institutes: East Gippsland; Wodonga; University of Ballarat TAFE Division; the Gordon, Geelong; Holmesglen; Kangan Batman; Victoria University; Box Hill
Consultant to 25 ACE colleges in Victoria, Nov 2006 – July 2007, to improve business and marketing planning
Consultant in January 2007 for ACE Victorian colleges in Geelong, Wodonga and Warragul and Mt Evelyn, to prepare a business case for the Board of Adult and Community and Further Education, for an ACE consortium to manage the Measuring Impact Tool
Facilitator of focus groups in Wodonga at the ACE college and at the Wodonga Institute of TAFE, in December 2006
Sample assignments in 2005
Evaluated BVET-funded project on personalised learning: ‘Creating Personalised Learning’, Nov 2005
Lead author of New Ways of Working in VET (ANTA, Melb), based on an analysis of good practice exemplars from the 181 projects funded by Reframing the Future in 2004
Completed an evaluation study of Centrelink’s leadership program, June 2005
Conducted workshops for Centrelink Learning and Development staff on the evaluation of learning, June 2005
Evaluated new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in VET, included conducting a national focus group in Armidale, October 2005, for NCVER project, Dec 2005
Prepared 11 of the 15 case studies, as project leader, for NCVER project, ‘Demonstrating Quality. Fifteen case studies of good practice in VET’, Dec 2005, available at http://consortiumresearchprogram.net.au/html/content/view/20/35/
Lead author of ‘The comparative value of three different methodologies for measuring the return on investment from a leadership program’, Mitchell J., Hamilton M. and Hayman C., article published in Journal of Australasian Evaluation Society, 2005.
Sample assignments in 2004
Evaluation report for FLAG: Implementing flexible learning in the workplace: strategies, models and barriers in the meat and food processing industries in regional Australia (a study of Central West Community College, Simplot at Bathurst and Cargill Beet at Wagga Wagga)
‘The comparative value of three different methodologies for measuring the return on investment from a leadership program’, Mitchell J., Hamilton M. and Hayman C. Paper presented at Australasian Evaluation Society 2004 International Conference, Adelaide, 14 October 2004
An evaluation of professional development for leaders in Scottish Further Education: Mitchell, J.G. (2004), Good practice in continuing professional development for further education college principals and senior managers in Scotland and Australia, Scottish Further Education Unit, Stirling, Scotland
An evaluation of traineeships in the BBC: Mitchell, J.G. et al, (2004), Becoming World Class: a Review of BBC Traineeships, BBC, London
An evaluation of industry training networks in VET: Mitchell, J.G. (2004), Building Industry Training Networks, ANTA, Melbourne
An evaluation of a national change agency program in VET: Mitchell, J.G. (2004), The Skilling of VET Change Agents, ANTA, Melbourne
Sample assignments 1998-2003
Evaluation of ROI, ROTI and VFM of Centrelink’s Senior Exec Leadership Program, 2003
Evaluator of national program on communities of practice in VET: Mitchell, J.G. (2003), Effectively Structuring Communities of Practice in VET, ANTA, Melbourne
Evaluator of national program on strategy-making: Mitchell, J.G. (2003), Strategy-making in Turbulent Times, ANTA, Melbourne
Evaluator of national program on strategic management: Mitchell, J.G. (2002), The never-ending quest: effective strategy-making and change management for high-performing VET organisations, ANTA, Melbourne
Evaluator of Flexible Learning Advisory Group’s (FLAG’s) national Innovation in Flexible Learning project, 2002
Evaluator, DETYA’s Small Business Professional Development project, 2000: Mitchell, J.G. (2000), E-business Springboards: Evaluation of Small Business Professional Development in E-commerce, OVET, Tasmania)
Evaluator of ANTA’s LearnScope program, 1998-1999
Evaluator of ANTA’s Flexible Learning Fellowship Scheme, 1998-1999.
Longitudinal evaluation of a staff development program:Mitchell, J.G. & Wood, S. (2001), Evidence of High-Skilled, High-Performing VET: A report on the long-term impacts of Framing the Future projects from 1999-2000, ANTA, Melbourne
Longitudinal study of the impact of LearnScope, 1998-1999, ANTA
Clients 1992-2002Clients of John Mitchell & Associates from 1992-2002 include:
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