Latest research releases
Readiness to meet demand for skills: a study of five growth industries
Are Australian industries, and the education and training system ready to meet the skills demand identified in five key growth areas? A significant cultural shift in thinking is needed about how skills are generated and used. Government, employers and the education and training system working together will help produce a skilled workforce committed to life-long learning and able to manage change.
Latest statistical releases
Financial information 2013 released
Operating revenues for Australia’s public vocational education and training (VET) system last year totalled $8.5 billion, an increase of $116.2 million or 1.4% from 2012. Total operating expenditures decreased $315.7 million or 3.8% to just over $8 billion in 2013 in comparison with the previous year. Financial information 2013 also includes trends for operating revenues and expenditures, operating expenditures by activities, assets and liabilities and data by state and territory.
LSAY data available
For 10 important years of their lives, thousands of young people across Australia take part in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), providing a rich data set for researchers and policy-makers. Data from last year’s interviews are now available from the Australian Data Archive. Information about how to access these data is available from the LSAY website.
http://www.lsay.edu.au/data/access.html
User guides, information about how variables have been derived, and the listing of all the variables available in the data sets have been updated to include information from last year’s interviews and are now available from the LSAY website.
New to AVETMISS reporting? Webinar
Book now for NCVER’s free one-hour webinar to help you prepare for reporting AVETMISS data! The webinar, next Monday 27 October, will provide a short summary about what AVETMISS is and how to report data from start to finish using the AVETMISS Validation Software (AVS), with time to ask questions.
Building research capacity
NCVER's 'Building researcher capacity' program is aimed at developing the research capacity in the vocational education and training sector by:
- attracting experienced researchers from outside the sector
- encouraging early career researchers
- supporting people in the sector to undertake research.
Two new publications from this program are now available through the VOCEDplus website: