This report outlines the research, products, services, key activities we delivered for the 2024-25 financial year.
Previous NCVER annual reports are available here. They document important company information, activities and achievements across financial years.
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Note: This publication has been superseded.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Note: This publication has been superseded.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Note: This publication has been superseded.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Note: This publication has been superseded.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.
VET outcomes may be improved if training providers take a more regional approach to course offerings and institutional learning support.
The main socio-demographic characteristics associated with being persistently not employed, in education or training (NEET) are early school leaving and having children.
This paper provides an insight into trends in Indigenous employment and training programs emphasising the need to support the move to higher level education and skilling.
This paper captures the views arising from a symposium held on 9 August 2016, at which participants considered training product reform from the perspective of industry, educators, students and regulators.
This literature review looks at policy contexts and their measures of impact, with a particular focus on foundation skills policy in Australia, implemented as the National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults, 2012—22.
This paper examines the key trends in VET participation during the period 1996 to 2014. It also looks at key policy developments and the prevailing economic conditions during this period.
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.
Using the framework developed by NCVER, this case study evaluation reveals the extent to which NCVER's publications are influencing policy and practice in the vocational education and training sector.
Imagine a new landscape for education. Reflecting on the past, through the Martin report of the binary education system and the Dawkins reforms which unified the tertiary education system, Francesca Beddie looks at contemporary policy and future possibilities for tertiary education.
In this audio interview, Francesca Beddie discusses her paper, What next for tertiary education? Some preliminary sketches, which presents some thought-provoking ideas from prominent tertiary education thinkers who came together to reflect on the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education report (the Martin report).
Looking at the past can teach us about what directions the future can take. A group of prominent thinkers reflected on the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education report (the Martin report) to offer thought-provoking ideas to spark debate and further fresh thinking on tertiary education.
This research report examines the underutilisation of the skills of migrants in regional areas, particularly women who are often the spouse of a primary applicant but are also skilled in their own right.