TasTAFE joins the National TAFE Network
Published on: 16 Jan 2026
Lyndene Bowen, TasTAFE Executive Director Quality and Academic Services, speaks at a TasTAFE Graduation Ceremony in Launceston in 2025.
Late last year, Tasmania joined the National TAFE Network (NTN) – a new organisation established by the Australian Government in 2025 under the National Skills Agreement, aimed at harnessing and strengthening the collective capacity of TAFE across Australia.
Through the Network, TasTAFE joins with TAFE organisations from all states and territories to respond to social, economic and technological change to deliver nation-leading outcomes for our learners, industries and communities. Collaboration, innovation and impact are at the heart of the NTN’s ambitions.
Lyndene Bowen, TasTAFE Executive Director Quality and Academic Services, is TasTAFE’s representative on the National TAFE Network Committee, which guides the direction of the Network and represents the diversity of TAFE organisations across Australia.
“The National TAFE Network is looking for initiatives that assist TAFEs in becoming more responsive and collaborative,” Lyndene said, “– and my role on the Committee is to agree on which initiatives should be funded from a national perspective, and are of the most benefit to the TAFE network.
“Sharing of resources is one of our priorities. In somewhere like Victoria for example, where there are 16 TAFEs, when the Nursing training package changed, the 16 TAFEs all did the work to update to the new requirements – when a much more efficient way of doing that would have been to develop it once, then share it out.
“So, one of the roles of the Network is to try and ensure that work is done once, and then shared.”
The National TAFE Network Committee will meet in Canberra in the first week of February 2026, with subsequent meetings online – aiming to bed-down processes and initial core investment projects, then develop an annual work plan.
“The legislation has been structured to get all the TAFEs at the table to work together to strengthen VET across Australia,” Lyndene said, “– and with that, I think there will be an improvement in the quality of teaching and learning resources, which obviously benefits our learners.”
