This report explores employer approaches to training their workforce through the use of nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) as opposed to other forms of training, with the aim of identifying strategies that encourage more employers to use nationally recognised training.

This review report recommends short-term and long-term actions that government, higher education providers and industry can take to promote greater collaboration across the sector. It considers how to increase industry engagement in teaching and learning through improved course curricula, opportunities to combine work, study and skill development, and how schools, tertiary education and industry can...

This strategy document outlines a long-term commitment and organising framework to implement actions that will substantially lift economic outcomes for Indigenous Australians, and support their aspirations to thrive in the mainstream economy.

TAFE is a greatly respected institution in Australia and is integral to the nation’s vocational education and training system. This report argues that free TAFE courses in identified areas of skill shortages is an economic reform that would help Australia build back stronger after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Evidence to this inquiry has reiterated the now well-established position that the APS is suffering from a lack of investment in its people, its policy development and its digital and ICT capabilities. This is resulting in direct and adverse impacts on the APS’s ability to deliver for the community.