This report describes the vocational education and training (VET) policy environment leading to the 1992 Australian National Training Authority Agreement and the prevailing policy environment 10 years on. The Agreement sought to establish a unified national system of VET with joint Commonwealth, state and territory responsibility for funding and this report provides an overview of...

The adult and community (ACE) sector and technical and futher education (TAFE) institutes provide programs for young people which re-connect them to education. In this report Johanna Wyn, Helen Stokes and Debra Tyler suggest these programs and settings are considered effective pathways for some young people who have left school early. The researchers found students...

This short video features workers and vocational education and training (VET) students discussing their views on generic skills, including how they acquire these skills, which ones are important, and the role of the workplace in fostering generic skills. The video was produced as a 'scene setter' for NCVER's series of generic skills research forums. Available...

Phoebe Palmieri uses four case studies to examine how human resource practices of TAFE institutes have changed to accommodate flexible delivery and the changing roles of staff. The report reveals that a whole of organisation customer-service philosophy is a useful basis for flexible delivery and the trend is towards team-based approaches. The detailed findings in...

Australia's tertiary education sector comprises higher (university) education and vocational education and training (VET). The purpose of this paper is to contrast the two sectors in terms of the way they are defined, their size and recent growth, the characteristics of their students, and access and equity within the two sectors. The paper also considers...