A new representative body for vocational education and training will launch next month with the aim of giving education providers a reliable badge of quality to set them apart from dodgy practices in the industry. QVET – a member-based, non-profit ...

The number of students enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) courses has surpassed 1.26 million under a national push to address critical skill shortages, as the Coalition ramps up attacks on Labor’s enrolment levels and signature fee-free TAFE ­program. ...

High school teachers and teachers-in-training can now use their qualifications at TAFE in a "commonsense" move to ease the shortage of VET educators. Those with a secondary school teacher qualification will be excused from having to obtain a full Certificate ...

A $1.3bn scheme to get more people into apprenticeships will be investigated amid concerns it is failing to grow the pipeline of workers needed to address critical skills shortages. Former Federal Court judge Justice Iain Ross and former senior public ...

A new RMIT vocational course aims to educate students to better recognise and respond adequately to victim-survivors of sexual violence and harm. The Course in Recognising and Responding to Sexual Violence is targeted at practitioners, support workers, service users and ...

In a rapidly changing society, ongoing learning is important for vocational training teachers; one way for them to keep learning is through the workplace.  In her new book, Supporting the Workplace Learning of Vocational and Further Education Teachers: Mentoring and ...

In this podcast Campus Review talks to Wendy Blight, A VET trainer and workplace assessor at Charles Darwin University (CDU) in Alice Springs. She recently learned she is one of the Northern Territory's four finalists competing for the Trainer of ...

Vocational education and training (VET) providers have faced many of the same challenges as Australian universities, with COVID-19 international border closures and ‘stay at home’ orders responsible for plunging student numbers. Data provided by the National Centre for Vocational Education and ...

Aged care, disability and foundation skills Australian vocational education and training (VET) teachers need to receive priority status as Australia commences its vaccination roll-out next month. The success of our national economic recovery through skills and training may depend on it. The Australian Government ...

Charles Darwin University yesterday released a plan to balance its budget through $9 million in savings after six weeks of consultation with university staff, industry and the NT government. The university’s plan to unify Vocational Education and Training (VET) and ...