Vocational education and training
Alternative labels
Education and training
Vocational skill development
Report
Do course durations matter to training quality and outcomes?
This study investigates the relationship between VET course durations and training quality and outcomes.
Report
Government-funded students and courses 2018
This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects and training providers in Australia’s government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system.
Report
School-to-work pathways
This study explores the school-to-work transitions of youth aged 16 to 25 based on the 2006 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY Y06). While the majority of the young people in the study sample followed a mostly simple higher-education-to-work pathway or early entry to full-time work, the remaining quarter of the sample...
Report
Future workers: computer science, apprenticeships and soft skills
In the United States, workforce development is a bipartisan priority, key to the agenda of most state governors across the country. As Australia faces the challenge of an uncertain future of work, looking at the strategies of US states, where there are diverse examples of excellence driven by a different educational system, provides an opportunity...
Discussion paper
The student journey: skilling for life
This discussion paper looks at how vocational education and training (VET) supports lifelong learners. It explore VET’s role in assisting lifelong learning and seeks to understand how VET will need to transform in the future to enable it to confront the challenges of an increasingly complex and changing world.