astra domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/studyfoxx/public_html/proactivetraining.com.au/news/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131One of the key issues in some of the literature has been how to develop 21st Century skills in learners. Arguably, one of these is creativity: the ability to think outside the box. It takes both a teaching and teacher perspective. This working paper from the OECD, which is higher ed. focussed, looks at what […]
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‘National Online Forum open to TAFE, RTO and Community providers connecting the Australian Dental industry experiencing skills shortages and VET Educators skilling the workforce.’ Following the outstanding success of the Early Childhood Education industry forum, registrations are now open for the Dental Industry forum. Engage with the Australian Dental Association, President – Jill Ford to
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In a recent article in the Australian the Australian Industry Group’s Megan Lilly and Victoria University’s Sally Kift call for work to really begin on implementing a revised and updated Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). The full implementation of the Noonan Review of the AQF is essential, they suggest. Megan and Sally, who were both members
FROM COMPETENCE TO EXCELLENCE VDC’s annual VET National Teaching & Learning Conference is back again and in-person. So, what can you look forward to this year? The VET National Teaching & Learning Conference 2023 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 17 & 18 August promises to be the biggest and most dynamic VDC conference
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“Recognition is the process by which an education institution bestows on a learner, who has acquired learning outcomes abroad, the rights normally attached to acquiring the same learning outcomes within the institution itself.” This topic has been a concern in Australia for many years in both the VET and higher education space. A short (15-page)
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Following a referral from the Minister for Skills and Training, the Hon Brendan O’Connor MP, the House Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training began an inquiry into the perceptions and status of vocational education and training. The Committee invited interested persons and organisations to make a submission to the inquiry addressing the terms of
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This recently released NCVER Infographic “presents information on how different equity groups fare in their VET journey.” The data compares members of the various groups with those who are not in them. It looks at a range of equity groups, including those with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI), those with a non-English
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Micro-credentials have spread swiftly. Education and training institutions are increasingly offering them by rebranding and restructuring existing programs or creating ones, “often through partnerships with other institutions, industries and learning platforms.” This 44-page OECD Policy Perspective, entitled Micro-credentials for Lifelong Learning and Employability: Uses and Possibilities, “examines what is known about both the potential and
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A recent series of publications from the Productivity Commission’s 5-year productivity inquiry have a bit to say about VET and tertiary education more generally. The various publications – 9 volumes in fact – cover a range of areas, but the ones most relevant to VDC News readers are within volume 8, entitled ‘From learning to
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This short paper from CEDEFOP is looking at how countries are working together to achieve a more attractive, inclusive, innovative, agile and flexible VET system in the European Union. Yes, we have been featuring a lot of their articles lately, but this paper also seems to cover the sort of rhetoric and adjectival language one
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