In this fourth and final part of the series on industry’s view of training product design and development, we discuss how the development process can be improved without throwing the whole system out yet again. Importantly, and despite the current ...

One of the criticisms of VET is that there are too many qualifications, many of which have few to no enrolments. While on the face of it, this can be seen to be true, we need to be very clear ...

This article concerns ‘transparency and accountability’ in the national vocational education and training (VET) sector. The theory is that transparency begets accountability, that stakeholders make better decisions if better informed, and in aggregate this has quality and efficiency benefits. This analysis ...

In this second part in the series on industry views on training product reform, we tackle head on calls by non-industry stakeholders for VET to be more broad-based instead of being specifically job facing. Over the last decade there have ...

One of the first priorities for the new National Cabinet Reform Committee on Skills, being the old Skills Ministers forum, is to identify a reform direction for Training Product Design and Development. In the first of four articles, I put ...

Charles Darwin University yesterday released a plan to balance its budget through $9 million in savings after six weeks of consultation with university staff, industry and the NT government. The university’s plan to unify Vocational Education and Training (VET) and ...

The peak body for independent training and tertiary providers and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry have helped introduce measures to protect the government’s new Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements scheme from rorting. Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) CEO Troy ...

A nationally representative sample of 1001 Australians aged 18 and over found that 94 per cent of respondents believed federal TAFE funding was important for the post-recession rebuild and recovery. The question put to online respondents was: how important is ...

Some of Australia’s vocational education and training providers are worried that the government’s new scheme to subsidise 100,000 trainees and apprentices is at risk of being rorted. The concerns relate to employers and training organisations potentially using the scheme to ...

Vocational education qualifications provide a raft of opportunities for disadvantaged people such as refugees, who often experience disrupted educational experiences growing up. Such qualifications enhance job prospects and promote economic independence. However, according to Tebeje Molla, a research fellow at ...