Key messages

Learning through Indigenous business: The role of vocational education and training in Indigenous enterprise and community development

• Support for learning in Indigenous business must be sensitive to location. Remote areas offer a significant challenge.

• Learning through Indigenous business is most effective where learning is tied to earning; the content is customised; it is parallel to real work; and it is applied through employment in commercial businesses.

• Businesses operated primarily for social and community benefits are not ideal training grounds for Indigenous people who wish to learn how to run a commercial business
  

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