Duties
Sec. 9. The duties of the panel include the following:
(1) To determine the essential and technical skills required to be
effective in the various technical trades and professions.
(2) To determine the statewide technical proficiencies of major
occupational areas considered to be necessary in the workforce.
(3) To review existing vocational and technical education
programs at the secondary and postsecondary level to
determine:
(A) whether these programs meet the essential skill and
statewide technical proficiency standards determined by the
panel; and
(B) whether there exists duplication in programs or
deficiencies in program alternatives at any level.
(4) To improve technical proficiency based curricula for
existing vocational programs.
(5) To make available to the pilot workplace learning programs
developed by the panel required essential skills and technical
proficiencies in the major occupational areas.
(6) To adopt the secondary level and postsecondary level
technical certificate of achievement assessment instruments and
standards under IC 20-32-3 and IC 20-12-1-10, respectively.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.46.
Last modified: May 27, 2006