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Note: This publication has been superseded.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.
Note: This publication has been superseded.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Note: This publication has been superseded.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Note: This publication has been superseded.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.
This guide presents an analytic framework that summarizes some of the main elements and issues that need to be considered in measuring ROI. This includes establishing the scope, context and purpose for measuring ROI, adopting guiding principles, identifying costs, benefits and factors that impact on ROI, and approaches to data collection and analysis.
Key types of ROI for individuals arising from TVET include employment and productivity (i.e. higher wages) as well as highly valued job-related returns.
This report examines the responsiveness of ‘older’ workers — aged 25 to 54 years — to government subsidies for upskilling and explores how enrolment and course choice responses varies by age, gender and disadvantage.
Apprenticeships have a particularly long and enduring history in Germany and Australia, this paper looks at the motivation of firms in both countries to become involved in apprenticeship training.
Understanding the costs and benefits of vocational education and training can provide a basis for making more informed funding decisions.
Increasing competition in the vocational education and training sector over the last two decades means it is timely to understand how the market structure has changed.
A more complete picture of all investment in training above and beyond that which is currently collected would be very useful for policy development.
This analysis of the VET FEE-HELP Data Collection investigates the characteristics of VET FEE-HELP assisted students, students who are likely to access VET FEE-HELP, whether the proportions of assisted students completing their training vary by provider, and students that are likely to complete their training.
This is a summary of the analysis of the VET FEE-HELP Student Data Collection over the period 2009–14 used to investigate the characteristics of those who accessed VET FEE-HELP and the likelihood of these students completing their training.
Around a quarter of young people in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) report moderate to high levels of financial stress, but other reasons appear to influence study outcomes.
This research reports on the effects of Youth Allowance using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY).
Based on a three-year program of research, this report explores the barriers and facilitators of course completion reported by students with a disability who have completed an apprenticeship or traineeship.
The distinction between VET and higher education in Australia is blurring. The purpose of this paper is to examine – through the conduct of a case study of engineering qualifications (AQF6) delivered in Victoria – how education and training providers and students are likely to respond to different fees and funding arrangements under the student entitlement model.
Encouraging older workers to stay in the workforce has become a policy priority. At the same time, the life expectancy of Australians has increased dramatically over the past several decades, effectively inserting a new stage in the life course, often called the 'third age'. This report explores the possibility of using that third age to embark on an encore career, a concept originating in the United States. The author then focuses on the role the VET sector might play in developing encore careers in Australia.
The calculation of expenditures per full-year training equivalent in the Annual national report of the Australian vocational education and training system to Parliament includes the application of cost weights. These 'course mix weights' account for the variation among states and territories in the relative mix of high- and low-cost programs and promote comparability of unit costs among jurisdictions. However, changes to the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard, primarily the change in occupation classifications from ASCO to ANZSCO, mean that the methodology applied until 2008 can no longer be used. This paper explains the technical solution to this problem, showing how course mix weights are calculated using a new method based on a set of cost relatives by the subject field of education rather than the funding industry of the course. It also provides a comparison of the two methods.