Workplace Development

A recent article by Linda Simon in John Menadue’s ‘Pearls and Irritations’ highlighted the falls in government-funded student numbers in TAFE. She examined why this might be so using the most recent NCVER data released in 2018. But maybe the problem is wider and longer standing than that as the NCVER’s timeseries data from 1981 […]

In 2017 Canberra-based academic Valerie Braithwaite was asked to review the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act (the NVETR Act) of 2011. This act “underpins the operations of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA).” The report, submitted at the end of January 2018 has now been considered by the Commonwealth. It makes 23 recommendations.

KPMG were commissioned by the Victorian TAFE Association “to undertake an analysis of the contribution of TAFEs to Victoria’s prosperity.” They found that “Victorian TAFEs are uniquely placed to position their students to take advantage of substantial disruption being caused by technological and structural changes in the economy.” The report presents a series of infographics

Late April saw this conference held at the VET Development Centre in Melbourne’s CBD. Thursday’s sessions were a series of workshops. Friday offered a keynote, 19 papers and two further workshops at the end of the day. The papers and workshops covered a wide range of topics: from conducting research and institutional developing research capacity

Victorians looking to upskill or start work in the disability sector will now have access to a new TAFE course to help them find a job or go on to study courses eligible under the Victorian State Government’s Free TAFE initiative. Minister for Training and Skills Gayle Tierney today visited The Gordon’s East Geelong campus

The 2018 ACDEVEG conference will be held in Melbourne on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 December at CQ University Melbourne Campus. The call for papers and workshop proposals is here, together with the templates for proposals for research papers and workshops. The closing date is 30 July. Papers and workshops proposals must relate to VET teaching/training, or VET teacher qualifications/professional

As the proverb states … If they can’t remember it, then they never learned it!  Optimal retention is achieved when instructional methods are used that fit the way the brain learns.  Yet is teaching being conducted in a brain compatible manner? Dr Rich Allen’s keynote presentation at the 2018 VDC Teaching and Learning Conference will

A recent NCVER spreadsheet and data slicer, entitled: Comparing high-use training package qualifications, allows users to investigate the diversity of the 20 training package qualifications with the most program enrolments in 2016. One of these, of course, is the Certificate IV TAE. The spreadsheet enables users to explore the characteristics of those enrolling in those

Debate continually rages over the quality and suitability of the Certificate IV TAE as the mandated qualification to teach in a vocational education setting. An ARC project, led by Professor Erica Smith from Federation University, has tried to answer a simple question: “Would more highly-qualified teachers and trainers help to address quality problems in the