China appears increasingly confident in aligning itself politically against the West. But there are ways for Australia and Europe to even the balance.

Little is currently known about the student experience of Australian vocational education and training (VET) offshore. This research project, commissioned under the Australian Government’s National Strategy for International Education 2025, takes important first steps towards building an evidence base to inform policy, practice and research.

This research, which aims to enhance understanding of student choice and entitlements to training from the students’ perspective, has collected and analysed data from over 150 students in Victoria on how they make their VET choices and contrasted this with the existing literature on choice and VET measures of choice.

To support the development of the Engineering workforce study (31), the Australian Workplace and Productivity Agency (AWPA) commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to conduct focus group consultations. The aim of the consultation was to investigate the participation of women and mature-aged workers in engineering occupations, and to examine ways to enhance the...