astra domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/studyfoxx/public_html/proactivetraining.com.au/news/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131New data from National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) tells us that the number of students in government funded training<\/a> fell 4.3% to about 1.196 million in 2022. While the number of students enrolled in nationally recognised VET also decreased by 5.1% over the year, those enrolled in non-nationally recognised training increased by 3.5%. Maybe there is a lesson there?<\/p>\n The data<\/a> also showed us that the largest decline in government funded training was in the ACT, down 9.6%, followed by Queensland (-7.8%), Western Australia (-6.4%), NSW (-3.3%), Victoria (-2.8%), NT (-2.5%) and Tasmania (-2.4%). South Australia was unchanged, though. Despite the fall in 2022, the number of government funded VET students has increased by 7.4% between 2018 and 2022. Indeed, the report estimates that, in 2022, 7.0% of the Australian resident population aged 15 to 64 years participated in government-funded VET.<\/p>\n The number of students undertaking VET in Schools<\/a> has also fallen over the past year, but many students are choosing higher level qualifications, according to NCVER\u2019s data. According to the report, a total of 242,945 students undertook VET as part of secondary education in 2022 \u2013 8,290 or 3.3% fewer than in 2021. Of these, only a small percentage of students (8.5% or 20,765) participated in a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship. The majority (91.5% or 222,180) were in other VET-in-Schools programs.<\/p>\n In terms of provider types, a total of 1,464 were delivering government-funded VET in Australia, a decrease of 3.6% from 2021. As expected, these were mostly private providers (952), although there were also significant numbers of community education ones (292).<\/p>\n In student number terms about 51% of students were studying at TAFE institutes (down 6.7%), while 35.5% were at private training providers (down 2.4%) and 5.5% studied at community education providers (up 4.1%). The remainder were at other provider types.<\/p>\n In terms of enrolments, there were about 1.46 million enrolments in government-funded programs. Of these, about 82% were studying qualifications, including training package qualifications (75%) and accredited qualifications (about 7%). In addition, 5.6% were in training package skill sets and accredited courses, while 7.6% were enrolled in locally developed programs comprised of at least one nationally recognised subject and 5% were in non-nationally recognised programs including higher education qualifications. The most popular were at Certificate III or IV level.<\/p>\n In terms of completions, \u201cthe highest proportion of qualifications completed in 2022 were at Certificate III level (46.3%), followed by Certificate II (18.4%).\u201d<\/p>\n Note that the publication also provides historical time series data for those who are interested.<\/p>\n The 2022 data shows that Queensland has the bulk of VET in Schools students (95,320, down 4.5%), followed by Victoria (52,350, up by about 1%), NSW (46,375, down by about 3%), Western Australia (30,490, down by 4%), South Australia (10,740, down about 13%), Northern Territory (2,805, up by about 23%), Tasmania (2,445, down by about 12%), and ACT (2,425, down by 6.6%).<\/p>\n In terms of school types, the majority of VET-in-Schools students were enrolled at a government school (147,065 or 60.5%), followed by a Catholic school (44,140 or 18.2%) in 2022. In terms of provider type, the majority of students were enrolled to undertake VET with a private training provider (93,705 or 38.6%), followed by a school (70,060 or 28.8%). This was followed by TAFEs (34,010), with quite a number being enrolled at more than one provider type (31,760).<\/p>\n In terms of enrolments, most were enrolled in training package qualifications (328,230), followed by accredited courses (26,770), with the highest enrolment numbers being in Tourism, Travel and Hospitality, comprising 51,570 or 15.7% of all VET-in-Schools students. This was followed by Sport, Fitness and Recreation (42,305 or 12.9%), and Busines Services. These are often the easiest qualifications for schools to deliver. In terms of completions, the highest proportion were at Certificate II level (72,385 or 60.4%), followed by Certificate III (33,325 or 27.8%).\u201d<\/p>\n In NCVER\u2019s press release<\/a> their Managing Director, Simon Walker, said that although Certificate II programs continue to have the highest uptake, there has been a significant increase in Certificate III enrolments over the past decade, up 69.7% from 68,250 in 2012 to 115,800 in 2022. \u201cFurther, we have observed a 74.1% decrease in Certificate I enrolments over the same period,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Both publications offer the opportunity to use NCVER\u2019s DataBuilder function to create customised tables. The one for Government-funded VET data can be found here<\/a>, while here<\/a> is the site for data on VET-in-Schools.<\/p>\nGovernment funded training in more detail<\/h2>\n
What about the VET-in-Schools story?<\/h2>\n
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