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Australian vocational education and training statistics: students and courses 2012
NCVER
This publication provides a snapshot of Australia's publicly funded vocational education and training (VET) sector for 2012. It presents national information about students and participation, courses and qualifications, module/unit of competency enrolments, hours of delivery and full-year training equivalents.
State or territory training provider breakdowns of the data are available as Excel files. In addition, selected data cubes containing information on student characteristics, students by courses, students by industry skills council training package groupings, qualification completions by industry skills council training package groupings and subject (modules/units of competency) enrolments are also available.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2642.html
Seeking the N in LLN
Tina Berghella, John Molenaar
Literacy and numeracy skills are critical in the workplace and yet little is known in Australia about the extent of numeracy training required within a workplace. This study begins to redress this by investigating the qualifications, experience, and numeracy skills of language, literacy and numeracy specialists and vocational specialists - referred to collectively in this study as VET practitioners - working in the process manufacturing industry. A degree of mismatch is found between the skill required to address numeracy needs in the process manufacturing industries and the current capacity of VET practitioners in terms of their understanding of numeracy requirements, their qualifications, skills and experience.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2627.html
Assessment issues in VET: minimising the level of risk
Sian Halliday-Wynes, Josie Misko
This report explores some of the key issues associated with the assessment in VET and reflects on some possible solutions. The authors provide examples from three industry areas where concerns have been raised about the quality of provision and assessment and some conclusions are drawn on the issues raised; specifically Childcare and Aged Care Services and the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE).
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2620.html
Performance indicators in the VET sector
Tom Karmel, Peter Fieger, Davinia Blomberg, Phil Loveder
This discussion paper was part of an event jointly funded by ACER, AWPA and NCVER entitled the National Summit on Data for Quality Improvement in VET held at the Park Royal Hotel, Melbourne Airport, on 9 April 2013. This paper sets out NCVER's thinking on RTO performance indicators including a discussion of the properties indicators should have and statistical and presentation issues.
Diary dates ...
22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills'
The 22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills' wraps up today in Mooloolaba at Sunshine Coast TAFE. With another bumper attendance, the participants had the opportunity to choose from more than 40 workshops and presentations that covered a range of topics including VET in schools, literacy and numeracy, social equity and student aspirations. Tom Karmel delivered his final conference address before retiring as NCVER managing director. His presentation explored the pay-off to education and the type of job an individual with a particular level of education is likely to get.
The 2014 'No Frills' conference will be co-hosted by Holmesglen and will be held on 9-11 July 2014 at the Hemisphere Conference Centre at Holmesglen’s Moorabbin Campus, Melbourne.
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