Workplace Development

The recent Budget and VET? It’s mostly all about support for apprentices and trainees as we highlight the treasurer’s speech and a number of the budget papers. But there are other things there too. First, the federal government has established the $1 billion JobTrainer fund to create up to 340,000 free or low‑cost training places …

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The 2020 VDC Virtual Teaching & Learning Conference focuses on an area within the VET sector that is often seen as challenging, Engagement. VDC has listened to your feedback and designed highly interactive virtual workshops on engaging with industry. The Keynote Presentations and Professional Learning Sessions with the theme of VET teaching and learning strategies for engaging …

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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggest that, pre-COVID-19, “Australia was already in a prolonged productivity slump.” They believe that’s set to worsen unless the nation upskills – and fast! What’s happened? Their paper, “Where next for skills? How business-led upskilling can reboot Australia,” published in August this year, is summarised through the link just above. COVID-19 has challenged …

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Is there an argument for rationalising the number of VET qualifications? This recent publication from NCVER looks at international approaches to this process and asks what can we learn from this. There are a lot of qualifications at present A little while ago, 2016 to be precise, NCVER published a report that looked at the …

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Griffith University’s  Steven Hodge has authored a paper that provides an overview of training and assessment issues covered in the VET sector’s landmark reports highlighted on VOCEDPlus. Beginning with Kangan, he works through the three pivotal papers released during the Dawkins era (and described in the paper as the transformative trilogy!) as well as the …

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Join Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) for an interactive OctoberVET webinar focusing on gender, disability, VET and careers. Thursday 29 October 2020 1.30pm to 3:30pm (AEDT) Speakers include: Dr Lizzie Knight – Victoria University and Secretary or AVETRA Jen Cousins – TAFE SA Dr Karen O’Reilly-Briggs – La Trobe University Michelle Circelli – …

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The Victorian International Education Awards (VIEA) are an initiative of the Victorian Government to support the international education sector and raise awareness of the sector’s benefits to the broader community. Applications are now open until 11.59pm on Friday 13 November 2020. Read more Now more than ever, it’s important we celebrate the change-makers in our …

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VET in Schools for 2019 shows there were 17 100 school-based apprentices and trainees and 218 700 students undertaking other VET in Schools programs, a total of 235 800 in all. Overall, this number is up 2.2% on 2018, but school-based apprentices and trainee numbers are down 5.2%. The report shows that while just over …

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This latest paper from Skillsroad suggests that the current challenges young people are facing may start “building a better and more resilient future.” Why might they be suggesting that it could be an opportunity not a threat? Around 5,500 15 to 24 year-olds took part in the survey. There’s good stuff and bad news stuff! …

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This was ‘an urgent review,’ in response to COVID-19. It reported to the WA Government in June this year and made a total of 41 recommendations for them to consider. The review process The review was conducted by Anne Driscoll, the Director General of the Department of Training and Workforce Development, and the Managing Directors …

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