Ultimately, the authors find decisions about expenditure on training depends on employers' interests, values and commitments. If new policies are to be effective and build upon enterprises' commitment to training, it is critical they align with employers' needs, and receive enterprise commitment. For government, a key strategic policy goal is to improve employers' perception of...

Highly innovative organisations demonstrate six key characteristics. They create learning cultures which promote innovation as a core organisational capability; employ leaders who are 'failure-tolerant'; identify innovators; reward people who propose innovative ideas; use partnerships; and, promote innovation through teams. In this report Victor Callan analyses how well vocational education and training (VET) providers employ the...

Katrina Ball examines the role that the vocational education and training sector can play in assisting the nation achieve intergenerational equity.

Conferences papers from the 13th VET Research Conference, held in July 2004, are now available online. The conference covered a diverse range of topics including innovation in VET, equity, literacy and numeracy, recognition of prior learning, employability skills, and professional development for VET educators.

Based on a literature review and twelve case studies of multinational corporations operating in Australia, Phillip Toner finds the quality of the domestic VET-skilled workforce is ranked equal third in importance, out of fifteen factors, when deciding to investment in Australia. To make the VET system more attractive to foreign investment, the multinational corporations in...