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| Adult literacy research program |
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| The Adult Literacy Research Program (ALRP) was managed by NCVER on behalf of the former Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, now Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The ALRP was funded from 2002 until 2006. |
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| Building VET provider and workforce capability |
| Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work (CREEW), University of South Australia |
| Principal researcher: Roger Harris |
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| This program has been completed. The project used a consortium of researchers drawn from a number of institutions (the consortium approach). The aim of the consortium was to gather together the best available team to undertake the program of work. |
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| Enhancing future productivity: The interdependence of workers, employers and VET |
| Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney |
| Principal researcher: Gillian Considine |
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| The aim of this research project is to identify potential under-utilised pools of labour and ways in which VET initiatives, job networks, and labour market intermediaries can help overcome current and deepening labour supply constraints on economic growth. |
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| Low paid workers and VET: Increasing VET participation amongst lower paid workers over the life-cycle |
| Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia |
| Principal researcher: Barbara Pocock |
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| The program will examine ways in which lower paid and lower educated individuals on the lower rungs of occupational ladders can be motivated to increase their participation in VET. |
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| Securing their future: Older workers and the role of VET |
| Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre, Australian National University |
| Principal researcher: Chris Ryan |
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| This research aims to examine the participation patterns in VET among older workers and the factors that influence these patterns. |
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| Tailoring VET to the emerging labour market |
| National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University |
| Principal researcher: Sue Richardson |
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| This program has been completed. This research program provided a set of insightful and soundly-based evaluations of the expected evolution of the labour market for vocational skills, of how the VET system could best remain alert to the emerging changes and respond rapidly to them, and of the current fitness of the VET system to meet the requirements of the future. |
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| VET participation and labour market outcomes |
| University of Melbourne |
| Principal researcher: Hielke Buddelmeyer |
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| The focus of individual projects over the three-year research program will be to study the position of VET in relation to a number of labour market processes and specific sub-groups of the labour force. |
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NCVER's inhouse research and evaluation program undertakes projects which are strategic to the VET sector. These projects are developed and conducted by NCVER's research staff and are funded by NCVER after approval from the Board.
NCVER, on behalf of the Australian Government and state and territory governments, co-ordinates and manages the National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation (NVETRE) program. Under the NVETRE program, NCVER commissions research based upon the research priorities agreed to by the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education.
