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Register now for the 2013 NCVER webinar series
Combining study and part-time work
A panel consisting of Sinan Gemici, Patrick Lim, Cain Polidano and Xiaodong Gong will explore the findings of recent NCVER research around school and tertiary education students who combine full-time study with part-time work.
Revitalising the 'vocational' in flows of learning and labour
Leesa Wheelahan reports on the findings of a three year research program entitled Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market.
Intergenerational mobility: new evidence from LSAY
Gerry Redmond will present new findings from a study that examines trends in an important indicator of intergenerational mobility in Australia between 1975 and 2006 - the relationship between parents' socio-economic status and their children's academic outcomes.
For more information and to register for these free public webinars visit
http://www.ncver.edu.au/newsevents/webinar/2013.html
The 22nd National VET Research Conference 'No Frills' in Mooloolaba, Queensland
Registrations are filling fast for the 22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills' on 10-12 July 2013. Co-hosted with Sunshine Coast TAFE, this year's conference heads north to Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. With its informal and collegiate atmosphere, the annual NCVER conference encourages lively exchanges about VET and a great opportunity to network.
Sponsorship opportunities are now available for NCVER's 22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills'. We invite you to become a sponsor of this well-known and popular event. Being a sponsor will provide you with the opportunity to showcase your products and services to conference delegates, meet a diverse range of contacts from across the VET sector and connect with people who are interested in professional development and updating their skills.
For more information about the conference and to download a copy of the sponsorship opportunities booklet, visit
Just off the press ...
Interview with Tom Karmel on 'The impact of schools on young people's transition to university'
In this interview, Tom Karmel talks about this report which uses data from the 2006 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to investigate how schools influence tertiary entrance rank and university enrolment over and above young people's individual background characteristics. A point of discussion was the authors' finding that schools do matter. Although young people's individual characteristics are the main contributors to university entrance, the school characteristics are responsible for almost 20% of the variation in tertiary entrance rankings.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2617.html
Are we there yet? Overview of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth
NCVER Managing Director Tom Karmel opened the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) research forum with a presentation entitled 'Are We There Yet? Youth Transitions in Australia' in Sydney on 11 April 2013. Youth longitudinal surveys have a long history in Australia, dating back to the Youth in Transition study whch commenced with a cohort of young people born in 1961. The initial motivation for the surveys was an increase in unemployment, and the changes in the labour market since the 1970s have kept youth transitions an important policy issue. The overview also maps the breadth of topics being researched and how they have changed over the past 25 years. A bonus is a long list of research papers that look at the longitudinal youth data.
What's new ...
Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) combined variable listing and metadata now available
This resource provides a complete listing of the variables and their associated formats/value labels contained in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) data files for all five LSAY cohorts.
http://www.lsay.edu.au/publications/2621.html
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