National apprentice and trainee commencements (trade and non-trade) increased to 55,680 in the March 2019 quarter, up 2.2 per cent on the same period last year. Published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the latest report, Apprentices and trainees ...

An economic downturn has been blamed for a recent decline in the number of Australians commencing trade and non-trade apprenticeships and traineeships. Seasonally adjusted data that the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) released last week indicates that commencement numbers ...