Workplace Development

This latest RTO focused paper by Hugh Guthrie and Melinda Waters looks at the factors contributing to the delivery of high-quality teaching, learning and assessment. It also focuses on those factors which can adversely affect RTOs’ ability to ‘deliver’ on high quality delivery. Entitled “Delivering high-quality VET: what matters to RTOs?” it concludes that “the […]

The VDC 2022 Professional Learning program for Semester 1 is well underway and we have excitedly reopened our doors to in-person workshops as well as continuing our online workshops, webinars, VET Chats and free Thought Leaders sessions. Register now for upcoming in-person training sessions at our VDC training rooms in Melbourne: Preparing for Audits: Tuesday

The 31st National VET Research Conference ‘No Frills’, previously planned to be held in Melbourne, will now be delivered as a fully online event. This will enable more participants to attend and avoid the uncertainty around attendance sizes and interstate travel. The conference theme is ‘VET’s role in transforming the future’. For more information, including

Have your say in the ACSF and DLSF review The Department of Education Skills and Employment has commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to conduct a review of the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DSLF). The project will catalogue and report on the VET and ACE stakeholders’ use

Ever since the demise of the failed VET FEE-HELP scheme there have been concerns about how effective the replacement scheme VET Student Loans (VSL) has been. The Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) is looking at a possible redesign. February 2022 saw the release of a consultation paper aimed at “making a series of

January 2022 saw the release of a survey of the expectations CEOs of the Australian Industry Group’s member companies have. It talks about business experiences in 2021, investment priorities and their expectations for 2022. It also looks at business inhibitors and strategies. Training features as an issue CEOs are concerned with and trying to address.

As promised in the last issue, a new NCVER report on online delivery has just been released. There is also an associated ‘Insights’ paper, authored by Dr Deniese Cox. Both of these are highlighted in this article. Transitioning delivery online has been a complex exercise for RTOs. The new NCVER report found that not all

The Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) has a range of resources and activities that are well worth a look. Three important projects are also in the works that will hopefully assist VET providers who have students with a disability. What’s ADCET’s mission? Based at the University of Tasmania “ADCET’s mission is to

Digitisation seems to be on everyone’s mind at present as another article in this issue shows. It is driving changes in the ways people work and also learn. COVID has bought the issue to the fore too. This is a couple of 2021 offerings from the International Labour Organisation (ILO). One – a policy brief

This 90-odd page handbook from the European Training Foundation (ETF) explores how to monitor and evaluate work-based learning (WBL) in VET. It is one in a “series of handbooks designed to provide policy makers, social partners and VET institutions with practice-oriented information and tools.” Some of these have already been published and are available. The