This publication presents a summary of results from a national survey of students who undertook vocational education and training at a technical and further education institute during 2003. The survey collects information about the students' general characteristics, employment outcomes, and satisfaction with their training. Also presented are the longer-term training outcomes for 15- to 24-year-olds...

This publication summarises recent research into the roles of VET practitioners and managers, and the way they work. The roles of senior and front-line managers are increasingly focused on external and internal environments of the VET provider, and building links. The VET practitioners role has shifted and is becoming more team-based and diverse. The publication...

In this paper Ann Harding, Ben Phillips and Simon Kelly found examine trends in housing stress between 1998 and 2004, using specially created versions of NATSEM's STINMOD model. For the latter year, NATSEM was required to update the ABS 1999-00 and 2000-01 Surveys of Income and Housing Costs to 2004 estimates. While we employed what...

Finding ways of curbing government expenditure on the PBS while maintaining social equity and access to 'essential' medicines is at the centre of ongoing public debate. This paper outlines future developments that will extend the current model to include health outcomes. Adding health outcomes represents a path-breaking advancement in modelling the PBS and will advance...

In recent years outlays on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme have increased rapidly, prompting both attempts by government to reduce growth in outlays and renewed interest in the characteristics of the beneficiaries of the Scheme. This paper, using a microsimulation model of the PBS, analyses the distributional impact of Commonwealth Government outlays on the PBS, by...