NCVER Portal Update...
NCVER's Portal is now live!
Welcome to the first edition of NCVER News from our new Portal. The Portal heralds a new era for NCVER’s online capabilities. With the four key menus - NCVER, Data, Publications and Support - you can now access content more quickly and see the full range of related items with each release enabling you to discover more. To help you find favourite releases, we have developed a range of support materials to give you a quick tour of the Portal and more detailed information about finding research, data and managing your subscriptions. So, we invite you to check out NCVER’s Portal at www.ncver.edu.au.
Don't miss...
Call for papers open for 23rd National VET Research Conference 'No Frills'
NCVER invites practitioners and researchers to share their research and knowledge through presentations at the 23rd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference ‘No Frills’, co-hosted with Holmesglen on 9 - 11 July 2014 in Melbourne. In addition to standard presentations, we are again offering a refereed papers stream as a part of the conference program.
For more information and details on how to submit an abstract
Is VET the panacea we think it is?
Drs Hielke Buddelmeyer and Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne will discuss Is VET the panacea we think it is? at NCVER's national research forum Realising our potential: widening participation through education and training in Melbourne on 3 April. Their presentation will focus on the completion gap for disadvantaged students, outcomes of policy initiatives such as ‘Learn or Earn’, as well as the role of training in promoting transitions out of precarious employments.
Get in quick! early bird registration closes Friday 21 February.
Just off the press...
Research messages 2013
NCVER
The current edition of Research messages brings together the key messages from all research reports published in 2013 in the following broad categories:
- Skills and productivity: from VET qualifications to higher-level qualifications and issues affecting the workforce
- Social inclusion and participation in education and training: equity groups and measuring socioeconomic disadvantage
- Young people: school, science and income support
- The VET sector: institutions, practices and the workforce
- Structures in the tertiary education and training system.