This program has been completed. See the outputs of this program below.
This research program provides a set of insightful and soundly-based evaluations of the expected evolution of the labour market for vocational skills, of how the VET system can 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. This occured by drawing on the consortium's considerable current understanding of both the labour market and VET, and by conducting a series of integrated studies to produce new understandings.
The National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) is one of Australia's leading independent research centres. Operating from its base in Flinders University, it has been serving government agencies at national and State level, overseas governments, large companies, trade unions and other groups for 30 years. NILS is strongly multidisciplinary, having high level research skills in economics, human resource management, industrial relations, sociology, psychology and geography. NILS remit is labour studies broadly defined, and it conducts projects on a range of diverse topics, such as health and safety, the youth labour market, vocational education and training, workforce planning, industrial relations and immigration. NILS continuously reviews trends and developments in the Australian labour market, and places these in an international context. NILS edits and publishes an academic journal, The Australian Bulletin of Labour, and NILS staff undertake independent scholarly research.
The Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning (CPELL) of the University of Melbourne is a national centre for research on post-compulsory education and training. From 2000-2002, it was an ANTA Research Partner with RMIT University's Centre for Post-Compulsory Education and Training. Established in 1993, it has managed a number of large-scale survey and policy-related projects covering every state and territory in Australia and every sector of education and training. CPELL has extensive experience in analysing national and international statistics and is a major national source of expertise on the performance of school systems at upper secondary level, early school leaving and student retention, delivery arrangements for post-compulsory education and training, curriculum innovation (e.g. VET), school effects research, school to work transition, participation in and outcomes of school and post-school VET, regional and social differences in school completion, and international comparisons of participation in education and training.
