Many of the skills shortages across the country rely on the Vocational Education and Training (VET) workforce to teach and train Australia’s future workers. This study highlights the challenges and opportunities and provides the data and evidence that informed the VET Workforce Blueprint.

This publication presents the most up-to-date contract and individual completion and attrition rates for apprentices and trainees, finding that overall completion rates decreased in 2023. The authors find the most common reasons apprentices and trainees left training in 2022 included dissatisfaction with pay or working conditions.

This report draws on months of research and on-the-ground engagement with regional, rural and remote communities to highlight significant gaps in early childhood education and care services and their widespread effects on children, families, and communities.

This report provides an estimate of the extent and nature of nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) delivered in 2023 by Australian registered training providers. Vocational education and training by nature is diverse, spanning a wide range of learning engagements from full-time programs across multiple years, short courses, to stand-alone subjects that were not...

This report outlines the barriers to building and retaining a skilled electrical workforce, and charts a comprehensive roadmap to develop the workforce that will light the way to a clean energy future.