This good practice guide for registered training organisations (RTOs) outlines six interrelated elements of student support effective in helping learners to navigate their journey and successfully complete their training.
This research provides valuable insights into how training providers can help students succeed across different stages of the student journey.
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.
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.
This report examines the responsiveness of ‘older’ workers — aged 25 to 54 years — to government subsidies for upskilling and explores how enrolment and course choice responses varies by age, gender and disadvantage.
What role does vocational education and training play in enabling students to fully participate in social and economic life?
One size doesn’t fit all: completion and employment gaps exist between different groups of disadvantaged learners and their non-disadvantaged peers, which requires a tailored approach for disadvantaged students. But closing the completion gap will not necessarily result in closing the employment gap.
Research published by NCVER in 2015 can be broadly categorised into two streams: qualifications and participation.
An overview of young people using LSAY data and research is presented in this first edition of the LSAY annual report.
A snapshot showing how transitions for young Australians continue to change, based on the 2013 Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth annual report.
Most disadvantaged learners enrol in lower-level VET qualifications as a starting point to re-engaging in education, which makes the transition to university less likely.
Educational aspirations have a large impact on educational outcomes.
This research report examines the underutilisation of the skills of migrants in regional areas, particularly women who are often the spouse of a primary applicant but are also skilled in their own right.
This report looks at the pathways Indigenous students in the Northern Territory take between VET and higher education.
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 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.
The focus of this paper is on the factors, other than access, that influence the decision for Indigenous Australians to participate in education.