July 2022

Introducing our Gold Sponsor: ACCE

Welcome to ACCE! Find out about the range of careers services available OECD Recognises Best Practice Australian Career Service The Australian Centre for Career Education (ACCE) has just been recognised for its Jobs Victoria Career Counsellors service in the 2022 OECD report, Strengthening Career Guidance for Mid-Career Adults in Australia, Getting Skills Right. “Victoria stands

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Challenging the skills fetish

In this recently published paper in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Leesa Wheelahan and her colleagues take a hard look at an obsession with skills in post-secondary education and in the policy discourse. The paper has two aims: (1) “to analyse the nature of 21st century skills as the latest incarnation of the

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Can VET be a lifejacket?

Well, this is what a new 4-page briefing note from CEDEFOP, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training is suggesting. Why a lifejacket? Because potentially VET can provide support for young people not in employment, education, or training (or NEETs as they are known) to keep them afloat. This was particularly obvious during

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