Senator Simon Birmingham to speak at ‘No Frills’
We’re pleased to announce Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Assistant Minister for Education and Training, will speak at the opening of the 24th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference on Tuesday, 7 July.
We’re also thrilled Jan Owen AM, CEO, Foundation for Young Australians (FYA), is the guest speaker at the conference dinner. Jan will talk about the importance of investing in young Australians and share her insights on how we must work together to build the confidence and capabilities of our young people.
Don’t miss your opportunity to join us at the conference dinner on Tuesday 7 July at the Janice Reid Pavilion, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta South campus from 6.30pm.
Bookings are essential.
Rethink training for better skills match
New research released
Redesigning training qualifications could provide workers with stronger capabilities, enabling them to adapt more quickly to changing labour markets, and help reduce persistent skills mismatch. These findings are from a three year research program undertaken by LH Martin Institute. Prompted by weak links between many VET graduates’ qualifications and the jobs they get, the researchers explored and tested the notion of ‘vocational streams’ – work-related capabilities that share common knowledge, skills and practices across inter-related occupations that are identified by collaboration between employers, unions and professional, occupation and accrediting bodies, educational institutions and governments.
Also released is a suite of research summaries for industry, government and policy-makers, tertiary education providers and qualification and approval bodies.
Linking qualifications and the labour market through capabilities
Hear about vocations research
Event - Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market
You can hear more about this thought-provoking research funded by NCVER, that proposes fundamental change for the way post-compulsory education is structured as a pathway into the labour market, at two seminars hosted by LH Martin and NCVER in Sydney (23 July 2015) and Melbourne (29 July 2015).
Each seminar will include presentations and a lively panel session, featuring:
Professor John Buchanan, Director, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney
Ms Jodieann Dawe, National Manager, Research and Business Development, NCVER
Ms Pam Christie, Managing Director, TAFE NSW (Sydney seminar)
Mr Rod Camm, CEO, Australian Council for Private Education and Training (Melbourne seminar)
Ms Pat Forward, Deputy Federal Secretary, Australian Education Union (Melbourne seminar)
VOCEDplus workshop at 'No Frills'
Want to make the most out of the valuable VOCEDplus international research database? Take part in a pre-conference professional development workshop at the 24th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference to find out how to get the most out of VOCEDplus. This hands-on workshop will highlight what’s new on the website and show you how to use the different search tools, including search tips and techniques. The workshop also provides a refresher on using VOCEDplus to discover current and past research, landmark reports, grey literature as well as a sneak peek at a prototype of a theme-based information resource.
Information when you want it
You can now choose when you’ll receive information from NCVER about its research and data releases - either on the day it’s released, or via a weekly or monthly summary. NCVER has brought in these new options in response to subscribers’ feedback.