Workplace Development

This whitepaper published by Turnitin notes the importance of high quality and timely assessment feedback. According to noted education researcher John Hattie, “feedback has a profound influence on student learning” and to student success. Grading can be contested ground in VET given its competency-based approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, but notions of ‘where to

As part of the extensive work being done on Skills Reform, a consultation paper on the proposed revised standards for RTOs has just been released focused on improving the quality of delivery and help build RTO capability and capacity. We gave you a heads up to this in the last issue. Because many RTOs and

As we highlighted in one of the articles above, Skills Ministers met in early October. Their communique from that meeting highlights the focus and progress on a number of fronts.a Following the Jobs and Skills Summit “Skills Ministers agreed to work in close collaboration and in good faith on several key measures, including immediate funding

This 2020 report by Singapore’s Institute of Adult Learning (IAL) presents findings of the first national study to gather baseline information about the organisations and professionals working in that country’s VET sector. Around 325 providers participated in their survey. The report looks at the profiles of these providers and their professional staff. It also examines

This paper by Helen Corben and Kerry Thomson goes back a fair way in time: to 2001 in fact. It “was carried out against a background of ongoing change and greater complexity in the nature of vocational education and training.” So, not sure a lot has changed much. Neither have the messages! There are a

Just a quick alert now, because we will have a longer article in the next issue of VDC News. However, readers will be interested that a draft of the new proposed RTO standards has just been released and a consultation process has begun. You can access details about what’s proposed in these draft standards here.

This 2022 synthesis paper published by CEDEFOP points out that “teachers and trainers are at the frontline of VET delivery.” To do their job effectively requires that “they (re)skill and upskill towards future-oriented competences, which they can then pass on to students.” The Victorian Skills Plan (VSP) and broader initiatives in relation to the VET

Safe working conditions are of course at the forefront of our minds in the VET Sector – with many of us in high-risk industries and professions. So, let’s take a look at this year’s themes for National Safe Work Month – as outlined on the Safe Work Australia website. Week one focused on Injuries at