Workplace Development

Readers may be interested in accessing the material on the National Skills Week website. There were a whole mess of ministerial statements on the website that VDC News readers may like to look at, but a speech by Federal Minister Stuart Robert was the one that interested me. You can access it here. TAFE Directors […]

NCVER has just published Unpacking the quality of VET Delivery by Hugh Guthrie and Melinda Waters that looks at issues in quality delivery and how it can be measured. What makes for quality delivery is context dependent in a diverse sector like VET. Measuring it can be tricky too. What do we know about quality

What is vocational excellence? Sure, it’s about high-quality education and training, but it’s also focused on work relevance and the attractiveness of educational programs to both learners and employers. We can also look at vocational excellence from a provider perspective and the vocational excellence providers should be fostering in their learners. Both are important. Fostering

As part of VDC’s Professional Learning Solutions we have added several new sessions to our extensive range of one-hour webinar recordings under relevant topic areas for VET Practitioners and emerging leaders. Now available for download for only $55. New sessions available include: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Assessment Mapping Effective Industry Engagement Strategies Positively Influencing Behavioural

NCVER has released the stats for both total VET activity and government-funded VET. What are the messages these two sets of data are telling us? Compared with 2019, student numbers in government funded training were up 3.5%. On the other hand, total VET student numbers (3.9 million) were down 6.4% over those in 2019. What

Noted VET research Professor Stephen Billett shines a light on the way VET can play an important part in enabling individuals’ life pathways. It embraces the idea of personal curriculums. Don’t know what that means? Read on! The project The presentation at NCVER’s recent No frills conference reports on an Australian Research Council funded project

Some time ago we had the Institute of Trades Skills Excellence, which operated in Australia for a time as a model for promoting quality delivery in the trades. Centres of Vocational Excellence, or CoVEs are a more generic version of this approach. Is it worth a go? CoVEs have operated in the UK and a

The Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) has just released a consultation draft for a VET workforce development strategy. It focuses on these four themes: capability frameworks and professional standards; industry currency, qualifications and entry pathways; professional development and support and supporting learner cohorts. Building the strategy “The consultation draft of the VET Workforce

Join us at the 2021 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference – a highly interactive virtual conference that will combine professional learning sessions as well as high-profile keynote presentations discussing the critical themes of Creativity, Connectivity, Productivity in the VET sector. Keynote speakers include Louka Parry, the award-winning Educator, Speaker, Facilitator and Adventurer and Dr Sean

In 2017 a series of eleven quality cases studies were published highlighting good practice amongst providers receiving Victorian Skills First funding. What do these case studies tell us? You can access the individual cases at the bottom of the link provided here. The case studies These eleven case studies highlight four of the key things