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Research messages 2020

By NCVER

This annual publication summarises NCVER’s publications and events for the previous year, including reports, summaries, infographics, presentations and webinars.

Work-based education in VET

By Kristen Osborne, Maree Ackehurst, Leesha Chan, Rose-Anne Polvere

This report highlights the benefits, challenges and best practices of work-based education in VET programs that involve a student working in a related occupational area to further their learning.

Rationalising VET qualifications: selected international approaches

By Bridget Wibrow, Joanne Waugh

This report examines international examples from countries that rationalised their VET qualifications so they could respond more effectively to emerging skill needs, and highlights a series of considerations for the Australian VET system.

Understanding the return on investment from TVET: a practical guide

By Jane Schueler, Phil Loveder

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.

Research messages 2019

By NCVER

This annual publication summarises NCVER’s publications and events for the previous year, including reports, summaries, infographics, presentations and webinars.

Research messages 2018

By NCVER

This annual publication summarises NCVER’s publications and events for the previous year, including reports, summaries, infographics, presentations and webinars.

High-use training package qualifications: specialised providers

By Patrick Korbel

This summary shows how the tool - Comparing high-use training package qualifications - can be used to examine providers that primarily specialise in delivering the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care and the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

High-use training package qualifications: childcare

By Patrick Korbel

This summary shows how the tool - Comparing high-use training package qualifications - can be used to examine enrolment trends, delivery, assessment, demographics and graduate outcomes of two early childhood education and care qualifications.

From school to VET: choices, experiences and outcomes

By Kristen Osborne, Michelle Circelli

This report brings together recent NCVER research that highlights the specific and complex issues students face when transitioning from school to VET, and suggests how student outcomes can be improved.

Research messages 2017

By NCVER

This annual publication summarises NCVER’s publicly released research activities, including reports, summaries, infographics, occasional papers, presentations and webinars produced by the company in 2017.

Social media in VET courses: good practice guide

By NCVER

This good practice guide explores the types of social media being used in vocational education and training (VET) courses, the benefits and pitfalls of using social media in teaching and learning, as well as tips for incorporating into VET courses.

Choosing VET: aspirations, intentions and choice

By Jo Hargreaves, Kristen Osborne

This summary brings together the findings from two research projects looking at the aspirations, intentions and choice of students considering vocational education and training.

Workplace training: employer and employee perspectives

By NCVER

Approximately 70% of all employees in Australia participated in formal or non-formal education and training in 2011—12, and a significant majority of them received employer support for it.

Explaining the VET applied research developmental framework

By Linda Simon, Francesca Beddie

This document explains the VET Applied Research Developmental Framework, created as part of a project that explored how the vocational education and training (VET) sector could broaden its engagement in Australia’s research and development (R&D) and innovation systems.

VET and entrepreneurship: research overview

By Craig Fowler, Don Scott-Kemmis, Tabatha Griffin

A look at the role VET currently plays in developing the skills of entrepreneurs, and how this may be further developed in the future.

Indigenous participation in VET: understanding the research

By Maree Ackehurst, Rose-Anne Polvere, Georgina Windley

This paper puts into context Indigenous participation in VET and employment and highlights how VET and higher education leads to higher levels of employment.