Discussion about whether practical equine skills can be taught online highlights emerging concerns about the limitations of ‘external modes’ of training. A revolution is occurring in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. A sudden increase is underway in the ...

Canada’s applied research model generates innovations across a variety of sectors from smaller businesses and students at VET-type institutions. By Ruth Schubert Mark Hoddenbagh, executive director at Algonquin College, Ontario, says Canadian university students will work for money, marks and ...

For many Australians, their new year’s resolution is a career change, a new survey has shown. Get Qualified Australia (GQA),  a recognition of prior learning (RPL) specialist, recently interviewed 1000 Australians about what they want to do with their career. ...

Students and industry have been well served by competitive VET, and policy should focus on refining these reforms. By Rod Camm Last year was, to say the least, an interesting year for the VET sector. It kicked off with the ...

“It’s going to be fun.” That’s Box Hill Institute chief executive Norman Gray’s description of revitalising a mothballed Melbourne TAFE campus that’s set to reopen next month. Lilydale was shut down three years ago after the former Victorian government cut ...

Sydney TAFE has extended its partnership with Open Universities Australia to develop 12 new online VET courses. OUA will provide Sydney TAFE with aid in course learning design, content development, a learning management system and a customisable learning analytics dashboard. ...

Teachers and administrators at Sydney Navitas English colleges have taken industrial action as part of a long-running pay dispute. The Independent Education Union and Navitas have been in negotiation since February. The college has offered staff a 2 per cent ...

Legislation to protect students from unscrupulous vocational education providers has been given the tick of approval by a government-dominated Senate inquiry. In its report tabled in parliament on Monday, the committee says the former Labor government’s VET FEE-HELP scheme was ...

Recent Senate paper builds up reader expectations of a robust effort to reform VET – but the Coalition’s minority report shoots down those hopes. By John Mitchell A familiar experience: you start reading a new government report on the VET ...

Getting young people into education and employment is the main focus of a new VET research centre. The Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, within University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, will bring together researchers to work with government ...