August 2021

Mark Tyler and Darryl Dymock from Griffith University have been looking at how VET practitioners get recruited and what keeps them in the role. This presentation at the recent No frills conference gives us some of the preliminary findings from a report that will hopefully be released later this year. The short answer is that getting ‘em

It’s the usual torrent of data releases from NCVER around this time (including VET in schools and Government funded training too), so we’ll spread it out a bit! Apprentice data are always of interest, though! Completion rates for those commencing in 2016 are down from the 2015 level, a bit, but are still around the

OK, an interesting title, but this article describes a process of considering and adopting more ‘innovative’ VET teaching and learning practices. That is the niggle and the jiggle bit. The magic comes if you can anticipate and avoid the ‘squid’. Intrigued? Read on! What’s this all mean I hear you ask! A while ago, 2009

The number and type of qualifications held by working age people in Australia is one way of helping understand the available stock of skills. In turn, this helps identify supply- and demand-side issues, such as skills utilisation and skills gaps. An NCVER paper has found VET qualifications outnumber those in higher education (7.8 million and