NCVER News #395

Less than one month to submit your abstract for 'No Frills' 2017

Don't miss your chance to present at the 26th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills', to be held in Hobart, 5-7 July 2017.

Abstract submissions close 5.00pm on Monday 20 February. Submit your abstract online now via Abstract Warehouse.

Presentations and posters must relate to the conference theme Skilling for tomorrow, and highlight work across one of the following streams:

• Explore: gaining a better understanding of education, training and employment, the people involved and interactions between these systems
• Translate: applying knowledge about education and training to improve practice, quality and outcomes
• Evolve: addressing the opportunities and challenges ahead to transform the sector to better meet future skill needs.

For more information on submitting an abstract see our presenter and poster guidelines.

Webinar: Graduate outcomes for VET: the missing piece of the total VET activity puzzle

Thursday 30 March, 1:00pm - 2:00pm ACDT

Join our first webinar for 2017. Listen to NCVER's Davinia Blomberg and Pip Skurray present an overview of the National Student Outcomes Survey, gain insight into the findings from the expanded survey data, and learn how to use NCVER resources to explore the outcomes and experiences of VET graduates.

Register now

The boundaries and connections between the VET and higher education sectors: 'confused, contested and collaborative' provides a brief commentary on the trends and potential trajectories of vocational education and training (VET) compared with higher education in Australia.

Exploring the multiple issues that lie at what might be described as the 'boundaries and connections' between the two sectors, finds many examples of confusion, contest and collaboration. Combined, this imposes an unquantifiable national cost burden.

From a student perspective however, the ability to pick and mix the best from university and VET, be it skilling, academic study or work experience, can only be beneficial to the needs of employers and to future job prospects for students.

If you’re a registered training organisation in the process of submitting your data direct to NCVER, we provide the following update:

• From 1 January 2017 onwards, the Outcome Identifier National code “90”- not yet available will no longer be a valid code, and will result in an error in the AVETMISS Validation Software (AVS). This means you cannot pass validation using the outcome id “90” and will need to replace all records that contain this with the “70 - continuing enrolment” outcome code.
• To fix the error you must amend your data at the source (in your student management system or data entry tool) and then export and validate your data again.
• For detailed information on all the available outcome identifiers please refer to pages 121 - 125 of the AVETMISS data element definitions: edition 2.2.

We also have some tips available which will help you produce error free data.

Would you like to be a featured author on the VOCEDplus Pod Network?

NCVER’s VOCEDplus team is seeking authors to profile on the Pod Network pages. If you have done a body of work on one of the following topics and would like to be considered for inclusion, please contact the team.

• Career development
• Employment
• Financial aspects
• Industry providers
• Quality
• Standards
• Sustainability
• Teaching and learning
• Technology
• Workforce development
• Youth transitions

You can view current ‘Featured authors’ on the following Pods:

• Apprenticeships and traineeships
• Equity
• Foundation skills
• Migration
• Pathways
• Policy and governance
• Skills and knowledge
• Students