Workplace Development

The New South Wales Department of Education has released its policy statement on the state’s adult and community education sector. It followed a review in 2019. This 5-page document points to the long history of adult education in all its forms in Australia. However, the present NSW ACE sector is made up of approximately 250 […]

OK, this short article represents the hope that life will eventually return to a ‘new normal’, and Australia’s borders will open again. Once international students start to return, they will need places to stay. Homestay is one accommodation option. The research Jen Walsh and Hugh Guthrie conducted a project funded by the Victorian Department of

Here’s another idea, building on our first article this issue. It’s from Holmesglen Institute Mackenzie Research Centre. It proposes “the Diploma of Professional Studies, that utilises existing training packages and also incorporates literacy, numeracy and digital competence skills.” What’s the deal? Authored by Gerald Burke, Tom Karmel and Bruce Mackenzie and entitled “A vocational education

Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has just released its latest report. Entitled ‘Averting an Escalating Labour Market Crisis for Young People in Australia: A Proposed National Job Cadet Program’ its authors are Peter Dawkins, Peter Hurley and David Lloyd. The problem The report argues “that school leavers and recent graduates have been hardest hit by the

The recent Budget and VET? It’s mostly all about support for apprentices and trainees as we highlight the treasurer’s speech and a number of the budget papers. But there are other things there too. First, the federal government has established the $1 billion JobTrainer fund to create up to 340,000 free or low‑cost training places

The 2020 VDC Virtual Teaching & Learning Conference focuses on an area within the VET sector that is often seen as challenging, Engagement. VDC has listened to your feedback and designed highly interactive virtual workshops on engaging with industry. The Keynote Presentations and Professional Learning Sessions with the theme of VET teaching and learning strategies for engaging

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggest that, pre-COVID-19, “Australia was already in a prolonged productivity slump.” They believe that’s set to worsen unless the nation upskills – and fast! What’s happened? Their paper, “Where next for skills? How business-led upskilling can reboot Australia,” published in August this year, is summarised through the link just above. COVID-19 has challenged

Is there an argument for rationalising the number of VET qualifications? This recent publication from NCVER looks at international approaches to this process and asks what can we learn from this. There are a lot of qualifications at present A little while ago, 2016 to be precise, NCVER published a report that looked at the

Griffith University’s  Steven Hodge has authored a paper that provides an overview of training and assessment issues covered in the VET sector’s landmark reports highlighted on VOCEDPlus. Beginning with Kangan, he works through the three pivotal papers released during the Dawkins era (and described in the paper as the transformative trilogy!) as well as the

Join Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) for an interactive OctoberVET webinar focusing on gender, disability, VET and careers. Thursday 29 October 2020 1.30pm to 3:30pm (AEDT) Speakers include: Dr Lizzie Knight – Victoria University and Secretary or AVETRA Jen Cousins – TAFE SA Dr Karen O’Reilly-Briggs – La Trobe University Michelle Circelli –