It is more than two years since two major reports concluded the VET policies in Australia are not working yet to date there has been little indication of substantial shifts in government thinking and policy to create a more effective VET system. This paper looks at the need to reposition other stakeholders in the policy...

The committee argues that a more coherent approach needs to be taken to the provision of rural skills training and education. Among its recommendations, the committee proposes a national strategy on rural skills training, encompassing the school, vocational education and training, and higher education sectors.

Patterns of pathways between and within vocational education and training (VET) and higher education are examined in this study. It compares the notion of straightforward pathways with what is actually happening. The researchers interviewed 49 students in South Australia who had participated in VET and/or higher education and who had been through more than one...

This report provides data on courses in the vocational education and training (VET) sector that are generally described as 'adult literacy and numeracy courses'. This includes General Education Programmes, Social Skills Courses, Employment Skills Courses and Other Mixed Field Programmes, plus some other activity. It does not include data on literacy and numeracy embedded in...

This study by Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Carmel McCarthy examines the nature of the training activity of private registered training organisations (RTOs) offered to Australian students in 2003, based on data from a national sample of 330 RTOs. The study also provides estimates of the private sector's overall contribution to the total vocational education and...