VET a partial equaliser for people with disabilities

VET courses do more for unemployed people with disabilities than for other unemployed people, according to a new study.

People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don't. That's one of the unsurprising conclusions of a recent study by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. But VET qualifications help even things up, improving the probability of employment for people who have disabilities much more than they do for people who don't. The study, 'The role of VET in the labour market outcomes of people with disabilities', found that among unemployed people with no VET qualifications, people who had disabilities were 83 per cent less likely to find work than...