Workplace Development

VET providers have a new source of training, employment and industry data The Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC) has launched the National Industry Insights Report, which you can access from the AISC’s home page. According to the AISC, the Insights Report: ‘…is a collection of information, data and insights for individual industry sectors. It captures […]

International speaker on March 8th Federation University is mounting an event, open to all VET practitioners, at the VDC on Thursday March 8th from 2.00pm-4.00pm, featuring international expert on VET teaching Professor Kevin Orr. Kevin, Professor of Work and Learning, is currently leading a national project in the UK on the topic of subject-specialist pedagogy

Participation rates have fallen markedly between 2013 and 2017 A few days before Christmas the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released Work-Related Training and Adult Learning, Australia, 2016-17, based on analysis of survey data collected between July 2016 and July 2017. Despite the timing, the findings don’t add up to a Christmas present if you

And reclaiming lost ground for traineeships As 2017 ran down, the Victorian Skills Commissioner (VSC) ramped up, launching a report with oomph. Rebalance and Relaunch will repay your attention. Its subtitle captures the intent: ‘Supporting Victoria’s economy by enhancing apprenticeship and traineeship pathways as a mechanism for skilling the future workforce.’ There’s loads of ambition

Clear and present challenge – recruiting and training the best teachers At Latrobe University’s leafy Bundoora campus in Melbourne’s north, two academics have crafted a thoughtful report on The teacher education of VET in Schools (VETiS) teachers (32 pages). Mike Brown and Karen O’Reilly Briggs have an attachment to their topic; both were trade teachers

Educational success may look different in regional Australia Demand-driven higher education funding was introduced in 2012. All eyes have since been on the university sector’s role in increasing the proportion of young people with tertiary education A recent report from Curtin University’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) might give us pause

Training packages may be missing the mark There is no shortage of forecasts about how digital technology will disrupt occupations and workplaces over the next 10-20 years. Artificial intelligence (AI), big data, automation of repetitive work – drones too, as noted in the last VDC News – will reconstruct our understandings of what it means

A new report links graded VET assessments with improved productivity Paul Krugman, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics, once wrote: ‘Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output