Australian vocational education and training: South Australia - An overview

These web pages are an extract from the publication Australian Vocational Education and Training: South Australia?an overview.

This publication provides an overview of South Australian vocational education and training students, and the outputs and outcomes from the South Australian vocational education and training system in 1997. The information is based on data collected under the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information and Statistical Standard (AVETMISS) along with information from the NCVER 1998 TAFE Graduate Destination Survey, the NCVER 1997 Employer Satisfaction Survey, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and various analytical papers.

The publicly funded VET system in South Australia provided for about 141,500 students or 10% of national VET students. This figure was higher than South Australia?s population share of 8%. Whilst South Australia accounted for some 8% of national course delivery, shorter courses were common as it accounted for only about 7% of annual hours curriculum. South Australia delivered 19.8 million curriculum hours in 1997, an average of 140 hours per student, compared with the 200 hour Australian average. Women tended to study in shorter courses than their male counterparts, and South Australia had the highest proportion of women students amongst the Australian States. Whilst South Australia accounted for 10% of VET students, it had a 16% share of students with Recognised Prior Learning or Credit Transfer entitlements. This also probably contributed to the lower module enrolments and curriculum hours.