VET graduate outcomes at the click of a button Information on employment outcomes for VET graduates can now be accessed in an interactive online resource. SOS Online, developed by the NCVER, can assist career counsellors and parents in helping young people ...

Over a quarter of Australian companies plan to reduce their spending on staff training as the recession erodes their bottom lines, a recent survey by the Australian Industry Group has revealed. And the peak industry group has found that businesses ...

Skills Australia has given limited support to a call by the Australian Industry Group for the federal government’s $2 billion Productivity Places Program (PPP) to fund training of skill sets as well as fully fledged qualifications. AiGroup policy manager Michael ...

Will the excitement around green skills and sustainability move past the phase of popcorn popping? It was unusual to watch a friend of mine, a card-carrying member of the National Party, applaud the president of the ACTU. We were seated ...

TAFE-delivered nursing degrees will become a reality from August, after education minister Julia Gillard approved Holmesglen Institute of TAFE’s application to offer 40 Commonwealth-supported nursing places next semester. The approval concludes a process that’s taken Holmesglen two and a half ...

Work-based training is one of the objectives of the $650 million Jobs Fund which the federal government agreed to with cross-bench senators Brown and Fielding during February negotiations over the government’s $42 billion economic stimulus package. Announcing details of the ...

What are young people’s labour market chances in the recession, asks Erica Smith. In early 2007, at the height of the economic boom, I presented a paper to a national workshop that was looking at youth transitions. The paper compared ...

TAFEs will receive around 10 per cent extra funding to meet their costs as “full service providers” under Victoria’s revamped VET system, the acting deputy secretary of Skills Victoria revealed last week. Philip Clarke told the Skilling for the Future ...

Does the National Quality Council have the time and appetite for a thorough review of VET issues, asks John Mitchell. The VET sector is undertaking a major policy review, and anecdotal indications are that it won’t resolve all the issues. ...

PPP jobseeker completions reach 33,000 Almost 92,000 job seekers have enrolled in the $2 billion Productivity Places Program in just under 12 months, with 73,500 jobseekers commencing training and almost 33,000 completing training. NSW completions totalled 12,000, Victoria 10,700, Queensland ...