This technical report provides an evaluation of three alternative methodological approaches for calculating completion rate projections for apprentices and trainees.
This report presents data trends in apprentice and trainee training activity in 2020 as compared with 2019, to provide insights into the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis focuses on monthly counts of contract commencements, suspensions, cancellations and withdrawals, and completions.
Government-funded students and courses contains information on the number and characteristics of students undertaking government-funded VET in Australia during 2020
Student equity in VET: participation, achievement, and outcomes highlights how different equity groups fare in their VET journey.
New analysis of short-course training in VET reveals for the first time the size, extent, and characteristics of this form of training.
This research investigates the contribution that community education providers make to foundation skills training in regional Australia, the models of delivery that seemed to work best, and whether training helped build the social and human capital of the individual and broader community.
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.
The report presents an analysis of nationally recognised ‘training package’ skill sets, and shows how both skill sets numbers and reported enrolments have grown in recent years.
This report explores whether VET undertaken by secondary students equips them with the technical and non-technical skills required to successfully participate in an ever-changing world of work.
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.
VET outcomes may be improved if training providers take a more regional approach to course offerings and institutional learning support.
As participation rates of young people in VET decline, opportunities exist to engage and retain early school leavers in VET.
The main socio-demographic characteristics associated with being persistently not employed, in education or training (NEET) are early school leaving and having children.
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.
Employer perspectives of workforce training, across three industries (red meat processing, road freight transport, and international freight forwarding) in both urban and regional areas.
How can VET retention and completion in remote communities be improved and what other indicators of success are important outcomes of training in these parts of Australia?
Based on the findings from five case studies, this guide looks at the important factors that enable VET retention and ensure good practice in remote Australian communities.
This paper puts into context Indigenous participation in VET and employment and highlights how VET and higher education leads to higher levels of employment.
This report examines Indigenous participation in VET and highlights a high level of participation and a shift towards higher-level qualifications.
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.