Work in Progress
Securing their future: Older workers and the role of VET
Summary
- Item:
- 10407
- Title:
- Securing their future: Older workers and the role of VET
- Type:
- Research program
- Program no:
- NR07508
- Status:
- Program in progress
- Date commenced:
- 29 April 2008
- Estimated publication date:
- 30 June 2013
- Theme:
- Students and individuals > Learner groups
- Contact:
- Tabatha Griffin
- phone: 08 8230 8431
- email: tabatha.griffin@ncver.edu.au
- Principal researcher:
- Chris Ryan
- Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre, Australian National University
Purpose
The research aims to examine participation patterns in vocational education and training (VET) among older workers and the factors that influence those patterns. This group poses special challenges for the VET sector but potentially great rewards because there is considerable scope to increase their participation. The purpose of the research program is to identify key factors that both determine participation in VET and are amenable to change through government policy and direct intervention. The outcomes of the research will be a better evidence base for other researchers and government on the nature of participation in VET and the potential role for interventions to increase that participation.
Approach
Quantitative
Research activities
This is a three-year research program involving a number of stages:
RA1 Skill matches to job requirements
RA2 Job requirements and lifelong learning for older workers
RA3 Who works beyond the 'standard' retirement age and why?
RA5 Differing skill requirements across countries and over time
Organisations
The SPEAR Centre commenced in 2000 as a joint initiative between the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS), now the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) and the then Economics Group (now Economics Program) in the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. When the Centre’s initial social policy research agreement with FaCS concluded at the end of 2004 it was renewed with increased funding for a second five-year Social Policy Research Services Agreement, covering the period 2005-2009.
Program output
- Publication Skill (mis)matches and over-education of younger workers
- Publication Who works beyond the 'standard' retirement age and why?
- Publication Skill matches to job requirements
- Publication Job requirements and lifelong learning for older workers
- Publication Literacy and numeracy skills and their use by the Australian workforce
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