Help us explore foundation skills
Do you teach or help people develop their English language, literacy, numeracy or employability skills in Australia? As part of the National Foundation Skills Strategy Project we have been contracted to find out more about both paid and volunteer practitioners delivering foundation skills. Please help us find out more about the capacity of those delivering foundation skills. The survey takes 10 - 20 minutes and is open until 19 December 2014.
New research projects underway
In July we announced the recipients of seven research grants to investigate current issues in the vocational education and training sector. Full details about each of the upcoming research projects are now available.
Funding has been awarded to:
- Shedding light: private RTOs training for young early school leavers – Lead researcher: Dr George Myconos, Brotherhood of St Laurence
- Consistency with flexibility in the Australian national training system – Lead researcher: Dr Kaye Bowman, Kaye Bowman Consulting
- Employer-supported training: prevalence, enablers and barriers – Lead researcher: Dr Chandra Shah, Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University
- Employer training in a changed environment – Lead researcher: Professor Erica Smith, Federation University Australia
- Skills transfer, re-skilling and training of older workers in response to restructuring – Lead researcher: Professor Victor Callan, Callan Consulting Group
- Cross-occupational skill transferability: challenges and opportunities in a changing environment – Dr Darryn Snell, RMIT University
- The effects of the Victorian training guarantee on up-skilling later in life – Lead researcher: Dr Justin van de Ven, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
New to AVETMISS reporting
The AVETMISS Support team has created a video tutorial to guide you through the validation process. Learn how to upload, validate and report your data using NCVER’s free web-based AVETMISS Validation Software (AVS). Watch our video now.
Additionally you might like to join our free, one-hour webinar that will help you prepare for reporting AVETMISS data next Thursday, 16 October. The webinar will provide a short summary about what AVETMISS is and how to report data from start to finish using AVS, with time to ask questions.
What’s new in VOCEDplus?
VOCEDplus, NCVER’s free international research database for tertiary education, contains over 63 000 items. In September, 600 items were added to the database. These include both the latest research from Australian and international sources as well as older publications, captured as part of our archiving and preservation work.
Topics covered include:
- Employment
- Equity
- Governance
- Labour market
- Skills and knowledge
- Workforce development
- Youth
To keep up with what’s new in VOCEDplus, you can visit the New Titles page in VOCEDplus, subscribe to the New Titles RSS feed from the homepage, or follow @VOCEDplusTitles on Twitter.
LSAY pivot tables updated
LSAY data on young people’s learning and earning activities: pivot tables
Each year, thousands of young people from across Australia take part in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY); data from last year’s interviews are now available in the pivot tables for the 2003, 2006 and 2009 cohorts. These pivot tables can be used to create customised tables from a range of variables, allowing users to drill-down into the data and generate time series. Data by selected demographics is available for each pivot table, including sex, country of birth, socioeconomic status, state, geographic location, and school sector.