VET funding

NCVER Collection

About the National VET Funding Collection

Data from the National VET Funding Collection provides information on the flow and distribution of government contributions that stimulate or support publicly-subsidised vocational education and training (VET) activity in Australia.

VET funding data has three distinct parts:

  • jurisdictions’ contributions and allocations
  • funding activity and distribution
    • funding activities and distributions (excluding loan values)
    • funding for VET Student Loans
  • public VET asset base.

Reporting includes direct and indirect funding for VET including employer incentive programs for workforce training.

The National VET Funding Collection began in 2017, with a subset of data collected and reported for 2017 and 2018, and full implementation from 2019 onwards.

This collection has replaced the previous National VET Finance collection.

For collection timings and more information see our VET statistics explained page.

The collection explained

The reporting framework for the National VET Funding Collection will provide a comprehensive, fit for purpose overview of public VET funding in Australia, that allows for a broad alignment with VET training activity data.

Data products

Please select the appropriate tool depending on whether you are a general or regular user of data.


General users

Have a basic understanding of data.

Supporting documentation (e.g. Jurisdictional asset accounting policies, explanatory notes and terms & definitions) are available from the publication page.

VET fundng annual publication Terms & definitions


Regular users

Can understand tables and manipulate data.

VET funding data tables

Further research

Access a collection of topic-specific research and resources.

Superseded publications

Government funding of VET 2021

Government funding of VET 2020

Superseded publications from this collection may also be accessed through the VOCEDplus database.