This report explores access to vocational education and training (and university) currently and historically over the past 20 years. It reports that those young people most likely to miss out on vocational education and training include those with disabilities, young people still living at home, children from single-parent families and those families with a history...

This publication summarises what is known about student transfer between the vocational education and training (VET) and higher education sectors. Transfer occurs when a student who has enrolled in one sector subsequently commences a qualification in the other. Some students have completed their first qualification, but some have not. The second qualification may be in...

This publication is a preliminary release of data on the number of students, subject enrolments, hours of delivery and full-year training equivalents relating to Australia's public vocational education and training (VET) system for 2008. As the figures are preliminary, they may be subject to change as further processing of the data is undertaken. Final data...

Australia, in common with many industrialised countries, must adjust to an ageing population, including introducing measures to encourage workers to stay in work, according to this report. Australia's labour force participation rate is projected to fall over the coming decades and there will be a record number of older people who have retired from work...

This short report considers the learning that goes on everyday: from the workplace to the home, and through technology and the mass media. This type of learning offers a bridge to formal learning for a variety of groups, including older workers, migrant groups, refugees and people who are disengaged from learning.