Vocational education and training (VET) can assist rural communities develop the necessary skills to enable them to survive and prosper in changing social and economic environments. This report investigates the implementation of training packages in five rural communities, and the strategies providers, community and industry stakeholders use to achieve positive training outcomes. Providers in the...

In this report Kaaren Blom and Dave Meyers explore the ways in which quality is defined and understood within vocational education and training (VET) systems, and the indicators that various systems and institutions have adopted around the world. The quality indicators have been brought together into an evaluative framework and reveal Australia's need to consider...

Training packages are a key reform of the vocational education and training (VET) system. In this report Michele Simons, Dave Meyers, Roger Harris and Kaaren Blom describe how the implementation of training packages has led to new, flexible approaches to training and assessment at six case study sites. It also shows this implementation has affected...