Mapping the student journey: the many faces of completion and non-completion in VET

This document provides technical detail and supporting data for the research findings discussed in ‘The student journey in VET: the many faces of completion and non-completion’. The analysis in this technical paper explores:

1. an approach to identifying VET subject enrolment activity that serves a compliance or regulatory purpose.
2. variability in completion rates across VET qualifications, and associated differences in patterns of subject enrolments and outcomes.
3. different indicators of student outcomes in VET, including program completion, subject completion, and movement to subsequent VET.
4. student training pathways exploring the extent to which students undertook programs, stand-alone subjects, or a combination of the two, and how this training choice evolved over time.
5. student training pathways exploring the extent to which students went on to enrol in a program at a higher, lower, or the same level of educations, and how these pathways compared for students who did and did not complete their initial program.