Online Intro a comprehensive data collection is needed for public policy and quality assurance, writes Tom Karmel who wants provision mandated. The National Centre for Vocational Education Research manages, on behalf of all Australian governments, a series of data collections ...

The federal government’s marketised VET program hasn’t hit the right skill needs. The federal government’s prototype demand-driven program for VET, the Productivity Places Program (PPP), has provided little if any training in four of the five fields the government has ...

To assist industry with workforce development plans, vocational educators need to get their own house in order, writes John Mitchell. The recent reports by Skills Australia and the Productivity Commission acknowledged the role of VET in assisting industries with workforce ...

New NCVER modelling has revised trade apprentice completion rates upwards. But the rates still aren’t good – and they’re virtually unchanged in non-trades areas like administration and sales. Apprenticeship completion rates in trade and technical fields are about a quarter ...

I hope that the thrust of the findings [in the Skills Australia and the Productivity Commission reports] is underpinned more by evidence that lobbying pressures writes Llandis Barratt-Pugh If the first wave of vocational education and training (VET) reform was ...

TAFE directors accuse commission of misjudging levels of teacher qualifications in public VET colleges The Productivity Commission included data from one undisclosed state in Australia, to highlight concerns about qualifications in sections of the TAFE workforce, TAFE Directors Australia say. ...

All VET providers – not just private colleges – should be more transparent, says Skills Australia. Private VET providers would be forced to divulge full details of their services and success rates, and TAFEs would have to boost their transparency, ...

US community colleges offering degrees are required to demonstrate how the new degrees will support skill shortages being experienced in the community. The rapid growth of four-year degrees in community colleges across the US following recent legislative changes was a ...

A report challenging claims of low VET completion rates has sparked a spat between the service industries skills council and the national VET research centre. A report commissioned by the service industries’ skills council has revealed retail training completion rates ...

The NVR experience provides lessons for the federal government’s next shot at grabbing state powers – over health, for example. The federal government might have secured the peak TAFE bodies’ support for its legislative program to establish a national VET ...