Rod Arthur

Rod Arthur, Deputy Director-General, Training in Queensland’s Department of Education, Training and the Arts, has over 30 years experience across the secondary and vocational education and training sectors in a range of leadership roles at both a state and national level.

Across Queensland, Rod's accountabilities have included General Manager for Queensland's vocational education and training regulation system and Chief Information Officer for the former Department of Education and Training as a whole. 

In addition, Rod has many years experience as Director for a number of TAFE institutes, including Director of the Open Learning Institute of TAFE, Queensland's public provider for training using distance delivery. Over this time he led many key initiatives for the TAFE network such as the development of China as a significant international training market and pioneered the use of customer relationship management technologies to support open and distance learning.

At a national level, Rod has been Queensland's representative of the Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG), a strategic body that provides advice on national priorities for flexible learning in VET as well a member of the Australian Information and Communication Technologies in Education Committee (AICTEC), a national forum for advice to all Australian Ministers of Education and Training on issues relating to the educational use of information and communications technology.