This research uniquely amplifies the voices of First Nations and migrant learners who have disengaged from foundation skills courses. By understanding their goals, experiences, and recommendations, ways to better support their completion are identified. The research explores how these learners first encountered the courses, their motivations for enrolling, the supports available, and the barriers they continue to face. Participants directly shared their training experiences and suggested improvements, offering valuable insights to enhance the effectiveness of foundation skills programs.
This research examines the strengths and weaknesses of CBT as it is currently applied to the Australian VET system and whether there is cause to consider a broader approach to defining and describing competence and hence considering how best teaching and learning in VET is delivered and assessed.
This guide focuses on the implications for VET educators of the increasing need to include digital skills in VET delivery.
This guide offers advice to providers and policy-makers on the incorporation of digital skills into VET delivery.
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.
This annual publication summarises NCVER’s publications and events for the previous year, including reports, summaries, infographics, presentations and webinars.
This annual publication summarises NCVER’s publications and events for the previous year, including reports, summaries, infographics, presentations and webinars.
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.
A look at the role VET currently plays in developing the skills of entrepreneurs, and how this may be further developed in the future.
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 paper looks at the acronym 'STEM' - science, technology, engineering and maths - and unpacks the various definitions and applications within education, suggesting that competency in these fields in just one set of skills among other equally valuable disciplines.
This paper explores ways to measure how the vocational education and training (VET) sector is contributing to the development of STEM-related skills.
The vocational education and training sector plays an important role in helping displaced workers find jobs, but is there more that can be done?
This good practice guide aims to assist employers, employment agencies and support services, and training providers in designing programs that help displaced older workers find new jobs.
This research synthesis examines the general decline of the manufacturing industry, and the education and training needs of workers affected by impending car plant closures in Australia by comparing two case studies and using findings from other NCVER reports.
Find out what the findings of a three-year research program exploring vocations mean for government and policy-makers; industry; qualification and approval bodies; and tertiary education providers and school educators.
Reforming both qualifications and employment could build better links between education and work to help provide a more coherent approach to vocational development.
This highly-popular annual publication provides a collection of summaries of research projects published by NCVER in 2011.
This overview provides a discussion about the report ‘Attrition in the trades’, and concludes that the problem of attrition in the trades is more one of perception than reality. A comparison between trade and professional workers revealed that trade workers are not more likely to leave their occupation than their professional counterparts.
Innovation is seen as a way of increasing productivity in firms and also increasing prosperity for the nation. This examines what is meant by innovation, the relationship between innovation and productivity, and the types of skills that are relevant to innovation. It also discusses the implications of innovation for the training system, government and enterprises.