This report looks at the pathways Indigenous students in the Northern Territory take between VET and higher education.
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.
This report uses Boyer’s four forms of scholarship – delivery, integration, application and teaching – to explore how scholarship is implemented across the different tertiary education sectors.
This research shows that older Australians use computers and the internet less than younger Australians. Therefore, in the short term, information and services aimed at older Australians will need to be provided in additional ways.
This publication is a collection of summaries of research projects published by NCVER in 2012.
This study provides new evidence on the inter-relationships between Indigenous Australians' association with their traditional culture and their engagement with vocational education and training.
This report explores the two tools used for assessing literacy and numeracy proficiency, the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALLS) survey and Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF), and finds that, while it is broadly possible to translate the five ACSF performance levels to the ALLS scales, there is not an exact match between the two, especially at the higher levels.
This report explores the relationship between vocational education and training in (VET) in Schools and the labour market.
This report looks at the impact working while studying has on students' intentions to go to university and their actual enrolment in university.
This report comes out of a three-year program of research that aims to investigate how best the tertiary education and training system might be organised to maintain the employability of Australian workers across their working lives.
This study explores the aspirations and intentions for university education among low SES and regional school students and looks at how peer mentoring might influence them.
This exploratory piece of work aims to illustrate the potential of matching methods in vocational education and training (VET) research.
The focus of this paper is on the factors, other than access, that influence the decision for Indigenous Australians to participate in education.
Do pre-apprenticeships help individuals to obtain an apprenticeship?
This report aims to throw some light on the role that skills sets play in meeting the needs of clients compared with full qualifications, which are seen as the foundation of the vocational education and training (VET) system.
In this interview, Steve Davis talks with co-author Kaye Bowman about the report ‘Workforce skills development and engagement in training through skill sets’.
This report investigates the role that qualifications play in the labour mobility of foreign workers who come to Australia for permanent or temporary migration.
This report explores the movements that workers make in the workforce and whether there are any commonalities.
Increasing education and training is considered one means by which to reduce the extent of social exclusion and as such has been a key focus in recent public policies. This study investigates the impact of education and training on the extent of social exclusion using a measure of multidimensional social exclusion. A simulation of the effect of the COAG target relating to halving the proportion of 20-64 year olds without at least a certificate III qualification between 2009 and 2020 on the measure of multi-dimensional social exclusion is also undertaken. The study finds a clear dichotomy in the extent of social exclusion experienced between those with low levels of education (early school leavers or those with a certificate II qualification at the most) and the rest.
In this phone interview, Hielke Buddelmeyer, talks about the impact of education and training on social exclusion using a multidimensional measure that focuses on seven domains.