March 2021

Community Education key to foundation skills for regional Australia

This new report from NCVER shows that regionally-based community Ed providers deliver more foundation skills training than other training providers in regional areas. This training can have a significant impact on an individual’s social and human capital, including improving students’ levels of self-confidence and feelings of self-worth as well as developing important soft skills. Good

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Highlighting total VET completion rates

It’s always interesting to look at completion rates for different qualification types and student groups. The latest publication from NCVER VET qualification completion rates 2018, released in December 2020, is the first one looking at completions under total VET activity. It’s about actual and projected completion rates too NCVER’s publication, VET qualification completion rates 2018,

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Free Victorian Government Skills First Professional Learning Program

The Semester 1 Free Victorian Government Skills First Professional Learning Program is now available. The program includes a range of one-hour webinars and three-hour virtual workshops to improve the knowledge, skills and practice of VET teachers, trainers and assessors. The VDC is also building on the experience and feedback from training providers and is developing

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2020 ACDEVEG Conference highlights

ACDEVEG is the Australian Council of Deans of Education’s vocational education group.The sixth annual ACDEVEG conference was held online in December 2020, with over 70 attendees. The theme was ‘VET teacher development around the world’ and the event included three international keynote speakers. The focus is teacher training and professional development ACDEVEG “helps to build

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