This publication from NCVER provides a snapshot of Australia's publicly funded vocational education and training (VET) sector for 2005. It includes information about students and participation, courses and qualifications, module/unit of competency enrolments, and hours of delivery for each state and territory. The latest annual training activity statistics for Australia's publicly funded vocational education and...

The way school students understand work through their paid part-time work and participation in school-based apprenticeships has the potential to inform career decision making and further education pathways. Through classroom-based interventions this project sought to assist student’s and teacher’s understandings of ‘authentic’ work experiences.

Australian vocational education and training statistics: Students and courses 2005 - Preliminary dataPreliminary data from the annual collection of student enrolments relating to the public vocational education and training system show that more than 1.64 million students undertook publicly funded training in 2005, an increase of 2.9 per cent or 46,000 students compared with 2004...

These statistics show the number of people in training, as at 31 December 2005, remained steady at 389,000, down 0.4 per cent from the end of December 2004. When comparing apprentice and trainee activity in the year ending 31 December 2005 to the previous year, the statistics show that the number of people commencing an...

The question of how the skills and knowledge of the adult language, literacy and numeracy workforce can be improved is particularly relevant in view of the ongoing debate on how language, literacy and numeracy skills should be taught. Sandra Mackay, Ursula Burgoyne, Diane Warwick and Jackie Cipollone reflect on the professional development needs of the...