Previous NCVER annual reports are available here. They document important company information, activities and achievements across financial years.
This report outlines the research, products, services, key activities we delivered for the 2024-25 financial year.
This publication provides a detailed look at the flow of public funding in Australia’s VET sector, and covers funding sources, supported activities, and distribution to training providers. The publication is based on 2024 data provided by the Australian, state and territory government departments responsible for administering funds for Australia’s VET system.
Note: This publication has been superseded. Government funding of VET 2023 provided an insight into the flow of funding into the public VET sector, what is funded, and how it is distributed. This report showed that government expenditure on VET increased in 2023 when compared with 2022.
This product provides a short overview of the automotive industry and the VET sector as it pertains to electric vehicles (EV) using NCVER and external information.
Note: This publication has been superseded. This report provides an insight into the flow of funding into the public VET sector, what is funded, and how it is distributed. Information is derived from the National VET Funding Collection, which was introduced in 2017 to replace the National VET Finance Collection.
Note: This publication has been superseded. This report presented information about the flow of funding in the public vocational education and training (VET) sector, what is funded, and how funding is distributed based on 2021 data.
Note: This publication has been superseded. Provides insight into the flow of funding in the public VET sector, including what activities are funded and how funding is distributed to training providers.
The importance of adult language, literacy and numeracy for greater workforce participation, productivity and social inclusion are well recognised, with both national and international research demonstrating the benefits of increasing proficiency for both individuals and communities. But there are still more questions to be answered, such as what is the extent of adult language, literacy and numeracy provision in Australia, and whose responsibility is it to fund such provision in the workplace? In September 2010, NCVER hosted a forum on behalf of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to explore these questions and what needs to be done to find the answers. This paper presents a summary of those discussions and recommendations for future action.
Reforms to Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector over the past few years have brought about significant changes to the work of VET staff and the focus of their roles. This publication summarises recent research into the changing roles of VET leaders, managers, teaching and support staff, and the way they work. The role of senior managers is increasingly focused on the external environment and building links with stakeholder organisations. Front-line managers focus on internal business practices and how to modify these to meet new clients' needs. The role of VET teachers is becoming more diverse and team-based. Within these teams, teaching support staff play a critical part. The publication also summarises a range of human resource and professional development issues, identified by VET staff, which need to be tackled to help them work more effectively in the future.
This research at a glance provides a summary of the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken into Australia's apprenticeship system, which is published by NCVER in the two volumes - Australian apprenticeships: Facts, fiction and future and Australian apprenticeships: Research readings.
This issue of 'Research at a glance' summarises some of the most recent research on the impact of competency-based training (CBT) on the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system. CBT was introduced in the late 1980s as part of wider economic policy measures to improve the skill levels of the Australian workforce, enable Australian industry to be more competitive in global markets and establish new career structures for the Australian workforce. CBT has remained a key element of VET policy adopted by successive governments at federal, State and Territory levels. While early research findings suggested that the implementation of CBT in Australia was neither smooth nor rapid (R Harris et al. 1995), commitment by VET participants, particularly industry and governments, has remained strong and substantial.
This submission is a review of research literature in Australia since 1990. It focuses on the following seven issues: strengthening demand, information, intermediaries, increasing responsiveness of supply, funding of training, TAFE in a competitive training market, and regulation.