The most powerful industry connections are often the personal ones. By Anita Roberts.   The industry-led VET system has stirred many organisations and individuals to expend considerable energy working out how to talk to industry. AQTF quality indicators and standards ...

Imagine the benefits if training packages were simplified.   The recent OECD report on VET in Australia bluntly called for the replacement of training packages by much briefer statements of skill standards. It was alarming news for those who had ...

TAFE NSW will seek allies to help it survive national reforms to the training market, according to an in-house strategy document. The discussion paper, prepared last month for meetings with regional trainers and union representatives, says Australia’s largest training provider ...

A great deal is being asked of Australia’s ageing and highly casualised VET workforce. Not only are they expected to deliver a substantial part of the Rudd Government’s “education revolution” – not least the massive Productivity Places Program – but ...

Australian VET research may no longer be in its infancy, but it has a way to go before it is recognised as having reached adulthood – at least within its own national boundaries. Roger Harris, professor of adult and vocational ...

Training providers who service the needs of enterprises might take a back seat if a model being driven in the Clare Valley gains imitators. The model involves the training provider, River Murray Training (RMT), doing everything it can to hand ...

The velocity with which the government is heading toward a fully contestable market for VET is breathtaking. Yet Robin Ryan reveals historically there is no evidence to justify the direction.   The Rudd Government has been subject to considerable criticism ...

An OECD team that visited Australia earlier this year to benchmark Australian VET against international standards has reported – and is highly critical of many aspects of this country’s VET system. While the review team says “Australia has a very ...

Is there a future for the brilliant, solo, transformative - and mostly male - VET leader?   As the VET sector moves towards an uncertain future, there will be an increased need for effective leadership. But what will be the ...

There is widespread belief that the Bradley review of higher education will encourage universities to compete in the market for vocational certificates and diplomas. However, the movement of schools towards the trade-level certificate III is potentially a bigger threat to ...