This research reports on how Australian employers with businesses have been affected by the pandemic and their future workforce training plans.
This research examines the factors that influence employers’ decisions when choosing training options, particularly nationally recognised training.
This report explores approaches to attracting industry experts to become, and remain, VET practitioners.
This study canvassed the views of stakeholders in order to identify the key features of quality teaching in vocational education and training (VET) and how it might be improved. It also involved an environmental scan of VET capability frameworks and standards to determine key domains, roles and capabilities of VET teachers, and three case studies of pilot teacher professional development (PD) initiatives currently underway to improve the quality of teaching. The report also makes reference to key related findings in the literature.
This report provides estimates of the size and nature of the Australian vocational education and training workforce. Data was collected through the 2019 National VET Workforce survey from registered training organisations (RTOs). The report presents estimates of the number of individuals working in RTOs with a particular focus on trainers and assessors. Information was also collected about volunteers who play an important role in some RTOs.
This report examines the current digital skills demand and supply situation in Australia via two sector case studies and a broader survey of HR, skills and training decision-makers across a wide array of industries.
This report examines the extent of unaccredited training in Australia and explores why employers use it, how satisfied they are with it, and the benefits they see in using it.
This report provides forecasts of job openings by occupation and industry in Australia from 2017 to 2024. Two scenarios of the Australian economy are simulated.
Employer perspectives of workforce training, across three industries (red meat processing, road freight transport, and international freight forwarding) in both urban and regional areas.
This paper provides a stocktake of recent developments in continuing professional development for VET practitioners, exploring issues such as industry currency, the debate around a professional association for VET and the required minimum qualification for practitioners.
This study provides a comprehensive picture of the way in which employers navigate the Australian training system and establish partnerships with registered training organisations. It provides insight into how practices have evolved over the last 20 years.
This literature review looks at the different contexts in which adult language, literacy and numeracy are being delivered, who the learners are and the pedagogies in use, to elucidate what works best for whom and why.
This literature review focusses on the critical continuing development of the adult language, literacy and numeracy, and employability skills workforce.
This report is the final report of a three-year program of research that aimed to investigate what might constitute an effective continuing education and training system. This report discusses the final stage of the project and proposes ways forward.
An overview of young people using LSAY data and research is presented in this first edition of the LSAY annual report.
The gap is widening between knowledge generated through Australia's training system, and the skills demanded by employers.
Interviews with workers and managers show differences in their reasons for engaging in continuing education.
Literacy and numeracy skills are critical in the workplace and yet little is known in Australia about the extent of numeracy training required within a workplace. This study begins to redress this by investigating the qualifications, experience, and numeracy skills of language, literacy and numeracy specialists and vocational specialists—referred to collectively in this study as vocational education and training (VET) practitioners—working in the process manufacturing industry. A degree of mismatch is found between the skill required to address numeracy needs in the process manufacturing industries and the current capacity of VET practitioners in terms of their understanding of numeracy requirements, their qualifications, skills and experience.
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 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.