LH Martin Institute report, Profiling institutional diversity across the Australian VET sector provides an insight on the changes that have occurred over time as policy has evolved, particularly the evolution of contestable markets. The Institute’s study was supported by TAFE Directors Australia and the Australian Council for Private Education and Training. The report’s key finding are: […]
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released an online report on 22 June 2016, entitled Qualifications and Work, Australia, 2015. The report tells a story about what happens in the workplace with the qualifications you deliver. There’s an employment benefit. In 2015, 61 per cent of Australians aged 15-64 had a post-school qualification. If you
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For 25 years or so the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) has provided advice and resources to tertiary education providers about how to make the most of all that information technology can bring learning and teaching. Over time Jisc has expanded its remit to support the training sector too. Recently Jisc’s publications provided case
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Sometimes we become distracted by what isn’t working in our VET system and pay too little attention to what works well. An outsider’s perspective can be the antidote to our irritations. That’s exactly what’s provided by Gabriel Sanchez Zinny in a blog post on the US edition of The Huffington Post. Zinny is the Executive
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Good workforce planning helps allocate training resources efficiently and effectively. Western Australia follows its own workforce planning and development model which is managed through the Department of Training and Workforce Development. Victoria is about to tool up its workforce planning capability again with the appointment late in 2015 of the Victorian Skills Commissioner – the
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The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) is doing us a great service by continually calling attention to the challenges facing Australia’s rising generation. It’s beguilingly easy to fall for the line that ‘kids today are no worse off than we were, and whine just as much as we did.’ But the FYA is showing us
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TAFE Queensland has launched RedSpace: Centre for Applied Research and Innovation. RedSpace: provides a focal point for a new way of thinking about and packaging what TAFE does and can do. RedSpace: is offering Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Services (ARIES) that align with and further the policy goals set out in the National Innovation
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COMPUTERS, JOBS AND RATES OF PAY Posted by VETCentre on Thursday, 30 June 2016 in E-Learning The incursion of digital technology into the workplace has hastened year on year. Old timers will be able to tell you when the first photocopier arrived in their workplace. It was under lock and key because a copy was so expensive. The old
QUOTES FOR CHRISTMAS Posted by VET Centre on Tuesday, 22 December 2015 in VET The VET Blog is signing off for 2015. The ever-present Christmas dilemma is what to give our blog readers as a parting gift for the year? Thankfully, India’s EdTechReview has just the thing to feed your professional thinking over the Christmas-New Year break. The good folk at
OECD REVIEW OF VET Posted by VETCentre on Thursday, 18 December 2014 in VET Late last month the OECD released Skills Beyond School (116 pages) which reviews how OECD countries are meeting the demand for skills, or falling short of the mark. And falling short is what most countries are doing. The image and status of VET is something that the report suggests
