Workplace Development

The Victorian budget for 2022-23 was handed down by the Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas on 3 May. It is wide ranging, but in VET terms touches on two key issues: VET delivered in secondary schools and approaches to skilling Victorians. Skilling Victoria The Victorian government is investing in the skills and training Victorians need to […]

It’s always instructive to take a trip around key VET-related websites every so often. This time, for us, it’s ASQA’s turn. They have recently announced the appointment of a new National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Advisory Council. The establishment of the advisory council was a key recommendation of the 2020 Rapid Review of ASQA’s

Staff working in customer service have had quite a rough couple of years, and now that things are finally starting to return to COVID-normal – many of the workforce are finding that after a long hiatus, returning to a physical workplace is quite challenging. What better way to brush up on customer service than a

There is a new paper, just recently out, by NCVER’s Michele Circelli and Gitta Siekmann. In its 25 pages it seeks to synthesise the extensive research on school-based VET. The paper’s focus “is on nationally recognised VET qualifications delivered to secondary school students, those that contribute to their Senior Secondary Certificate of Education (SSCE) rather

The forthcoming election is highlighting contrasting policies on skills and training as we noted in recent VDC News articles focused on coalition approaches reflected in the recent federal budget and labor policy. As a recent TAFE Directors Australia newsletter noted, the Australian newspaper’s Higher Education section has taken a detailed look at some of the

It’s with very great sadness that we heard of Peter Noonan’s recent passing. Peter was the Chair of the VET Development Centre from 2008 to 2011 (formerly known as the TAFE Development Centre). Amongst many career highlights was his membership of the Bradley Review into Tertiary Education and as Chair of the review of the

The 2021-22 federal budget saw the Commonwealth government announcing new industry engagement arrangements to strengthen the role of industry in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system. Ahead of possible broader reforms, and as part of this, a series of Skills Organisation (SO) Pilots were created covering the areas of mining, digital and human services.

This paper, published in late 2021 by the OECD, is entitled “Opportunities and Drawbacks of Using Artificial Intelligence for Training.” It notes that “Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to increase training participation, including among currently underrepresented groups, by lowering some of the barriers to training that people experience and by increasing motivation to train.”

Doyen VET researcher Gerald Burke has produced a paper for the VET Knowledge Bank managed as part of the VOCEDPlus Research database. He looks at the funding of the VET sector from 1970 until 2020. But the paper is so much more than that. It looks at how funding has changed in the context of