Australian VET was getting more efficient, productive and inclusive before the current market-based reforms ramped up last year, according to a new Productivity Commission report on government-funded VET provision in 2007. The VET chapter of the 'Report on government services', ...

University study has long been recognised not just as the pathway – in many cases the only pathway – to a range of professional occupations, but also as the key to job security, high earnings and even good health. Indeed, ...

The Australian Institute of Packaging has reached agreement with the Australian Management Academy (AMA), a registered training organisation which specialises in training for the manufacturing, processing, mining and quarrying industries, to administer certificate and diploma qualifications in packaging for the ...

TAFE is being increasingly divided as its workforce skills and student markets develop quite separately. Add to that resilient staff cultures and there is a sense of unease, says Malcolm White. One reason for the ongoing controversy about the role ...

In this period of economic crisis, should the government abandon its encouragement of high level skills? And should it intervene more in VET? By John Mitchell. Anecdotally, many VET providers are experiencing significant increases in enrolments at the start of ...

The federal, state and territory governments have changed the rules on who pays for training funded under the Productivity Places Program (PPP), with students now liable for a 10 per cent component that was originally supposed to be paid by ...

Everyone these days agrees that the economy needs more people with qualifications and that those already with qualifications need to extend their education and training. One element of this is a policy push for an increase in delivery of VET ...

02 Feb 09 | Print this story | Send this story to a friend New wiki to share literacy and numeracy insights The National Centre for Vocational Education Research has developed a wiki to generate and share ideas on adult ...

In a world of information overflow and attention hyperactivity, maybe we need to focus on, well, focusing, says Anita Roberts. You must have seen the video clip (there’s one http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4), you are asked to count how many passes the white ...

The government is going full steam ahead with market design for VET. But the cost of failure is high and the consequences won’t necessarily be known for many years, says Leesa Wheelahan. Education Minister Julia Gillard, in a speech in ...