They report 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 of parental unemployment. Gillian Considine, Ian Watson, Richard Hall explore access to vocational education and training (and university) currently...

The development of a uniquely Australian system of innovation and its relation to the vocational education and training (VET) system is considered in this discussion paper. Richard Pickersgill argues that the Australian system of innovation fits the pattern of incremental innovation and diffusion of technical knowledge. He focuses on arrangements prior to the formation of...

The latest national Student Outcomes Survey reveals that 88 per cent of TAFE graduates were satisfied with the overall quality of their training, the highest level of satisfaction recorded in the last five years. Eighty-five per cent of TAFE graduates reported that they achieved their main aim for undertaking training, with 73 per cent stating...

The number of people commencing an apprenticeship or traineeship continued to grow in the year ending 30 June 2005, up 4 per cent from the previous year to 265,000. On a seasonally adjusted basis, commencements have grown for five successive quarters. Commencements in traditional apprenticeships in the twelve months to the end of June 2005...

Increasingly, vocational education and training practitioners work with industry and within private enterprises in arrangements that provide training for workers. Drawing on interviews with TAFE practitioners and managers, enterprise managers and on-the-job learners, Roger Harris, Michele Simons and Julian Moore highlight the expanding roles of TAFE practitioners in these training arrangements. They find that in...