Workplace Development

There are just over 240,000 students doing VET in schools (VETiS), and nearly 18,000 are doing a schools-based apprentice or traineeship (SBAT). The SBATs represent 7.4% of all VETiS students. While numbers are up over 2019 by 2.3%, overall numbers have declined by around 1% since 2016. The data show that over half of them […]

Analysis of current qualifications and feedback from stakeholders has informed some initial thinking about how the training product design concepts might work in practice. There is an opportunity for you to provide input too. A short paper on a proposed approach to qualification design has just been produced and contains a set of overview diagrams

From the mid until the late 2000s, a series of projects undertaken by a consortium of influential VET researchers looked at how the capability of VET providers could be improved. These projects resulted in a significant number of publications. In the light a recent NCVER publication focused on how the past might inform the future,

Mark Tyler and Darryl Dymock from Griffith University have been looking at how VET practitioners get recruited and what keeps them in the role. This presentation at the recent No frills conference gives us some of the preliminary findings from a report that will hopefully be released later this year. The short answer is that getting ‘em

It’s the usual torrent of data releases from NCVER around this time (including VET in schools and Government funded training too), so we’ll spread it out a bit! Apprentice data are always of interest, though! Completion rates for those commencing in 2016 are down from the 2015 level, a bit, but are still around the

OK, an interesting title, but this article describes a process of considering and adopting more ‘innovative’ VET teaching and learning practices. That is the niggle and the jiggle bit. The magic comes if you can anticipate and avoid the ‘squid’. Intrigued? Read on! What’s this all mean I hear you ask! A while ago, 2009

The number and type of qualifications held by working age people in Australia is one way of helping understand the available stock of skills. In turn, this helps identify supply- and demand-side issues, such as skills utilisation and skills gaps. An NCVER paper has found VET qualifications outnumber those in higher education (7.8 million and

Many VDC News readers in the community ed. space may be interested in accessing the presentations and resolutions of this summit, which was held virtually on 29 June. The summit’s site, which can be accessed here, enables you to access the presentations by three ministers (The Hon Stuart Robert MP, the federal Minister for Employment,

A recent paper put out by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) in late June summarises the outcomes of consultations that took place between December 2020 and March 2021. Using surveys, online workshops and webinars, and meetings, it’s looked at a range of issues: including the RTO standards, VET workforce issues – including

An AI Action Plan for all Australians discussion paper released by the Australian Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources in 2020 was a starting point in shaping a vision for Artificial Intelligence and the potential for its widespread application and use. In June 2021 an action plan based on the discussion paper was released. So, what’s AI?