About the survey
Why the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey is conducted
The VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey will produce national statistical reports and other approved outputs describing Australia's VET teacher, trainer and assessor workforce.
The VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey addresses an evidence gap in national information about Australia's VET teaching and training workforce. The findings will support workforce planning, identification of workforce shortages and emerging issues, and policies relating to attraction, retention and professional development of the VET workforce.
Who is eligible to participate in the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey
This survey is targeted to those who undertook and completed a Training and Assessment program (TAE) between 2016 and 2025. This may range from qualifications such as the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and Diploma of Training Design and Development, to shorter more specific programs like the Assessor Skill Set, or Enterprise Trainer-Presenting Skill Set.
Who funds, conducts and manages the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey
NCVER and The Social Research Centre (SRC) are undertaking this project on behalf of Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA). Jobs and Skills Australia is an independent statutory body within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ portfolio responsible for workforce, labour-market and skills analysis, and advice.
The administration of the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey forms a key component of Phase 2 of Jobs and Skills Australia’s VET Workforce Data Dashboard Project, with the findings providing a robust evidence base to inform policy and decision-making across the VET sector.
Survey participation
I don't want to participate in this survey
Participation in the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey is optional. To opt out and not receive future communications about it, please telephone SRC on 1800 023 040 (free call within Australia) or email tta@srcentre.com.au.
The information collected
What information is collected?
Your name and contact details are provided to SRC via a secure file exchange portal by the Office of the Student Identifiers Registrar (OSIR) or by NCVER. This personal information may include your:
- name
- contact details
- age
- date of birth
- training program and training provider details.
Other information collected through the survey relates to your work as a VET teacher, trainer and/or assessor.
Responses to the survey will be linked with personal and training data provided by the training provider with whom you completed your TAE program. This may include sensitive information from your enrolment form. This allows the questionnaire to be shortened as we do not need to ask specific details about you or your training.
Where your information is held
For the duration of the data collection, SRC stores all personal information and survey responses on secure servers located within Australia.
After SRC provides your information to NCVER, NCVER stores the data within Australia with appropriate levels of security.
Collection and use of your personal information
Your personal information is collected for the purpose of administering the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor survey to produce statistics and research relating to the VET teaching workforce in Australia. The administration of VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey forms a key component of Phase 2 of Jobs and Skills Australia’s VET Workforce Data Dashboard Project, with the findings providing a robust evidence base to inform policy and decision-making across the VET sector.
This may involve combining your information with other sources of data to help policy makers better understand the workforce characteristics, employment arrangements, career pathways, professional practice, professional development, and workforce intentions of the VET teaching workforce.
Disclosure of your personal information and the collected data
Some personal information (such as your name, email address and phone number) is only used by SRC for administering the survey. This may be disclosed to a small number of external service providers SRC works with to administer the VET Teacher, Trainer and Assessor Survey. Companies providing email and messaging services will be provided with your contact information for the sole purpose of administering the survey.
On completion of the survey fieldwork, SRC does not give your name or contact details to NCVER, only a data set of all the information collected. Please note that NCVER can identify you from the data set collected, notwithstanding that your name and contact details will not be provided to NCVER by SRC.
SRC and all companies contracted by SRC comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). SRC and these companies destroy all records of your name and contact details at the conclusion of the survey.
Other personal information such as demographic information (including gender and age group) as well as course information is also used to analyse and interpret the survey data.
If we disclose personal information, we do so only as permitted by the Privacy Act and the National VET Data Policy.
We may also disclose your personal information where:
- you have agreed
- you would reasonably expect, or have been told, that we may disclose information in a particular circumstance or to a particular person or organisation
- it is required or authorised by law.
Further to this, the National VET Data Policy authorises us to disclose personal information for:
- administering VET, including program administration, regulation, monitoring and evaluation
- facilitating statistics and research relating to education, including surveys and data linkage
- understanding how the VET market operates, for policy, workforce planning and consumer information.
Your personal information and other collected data are disclosed for the above purposes to the following recipients and in the following manner.
- The Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, as well as Commonwealth and state/territory government education and training departments may publish the data at the aggregate level for access by policy makers, training providers, and the wider public.
- Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) for the purposes as defined by the functions of the Jobs and Skills Australia Act 2022. This may include undertaking analysis, linking with other data sources and publicly publishing aggregate and/or de-identified data.
Protection and management of your information
The Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, NCVER, SRC, and OSIR manage personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
Any person in the European Union (EU) who participates in this survey is considered to have opted in by their own choice. They should be aware that while NCVER fully complies with the Australian Privacy Act, including the Australian Privacy Principles, and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, which have similar requirements to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), NCVER may not at this time, comply with all GDPR requirements.
For more information on how your personal information is handled, including how to seek access to, or correction of, your personal information and how to make a complaint about a breach of your privacy, please refer to the relevant Privacy Policies. Full details of each are displayed on the respective websites:
Further information
Who to contact
For general queries about the administration of the survey, please telephone SRC on 1800 023 040 (free call within Australia) or email tta@srcentre.com.au.
This includes queries or complaints concerning your personal information, or if you wish to request access to or correction of your personal information. Correction of your personal information can only be made while the survey is being conducted and for the purpose of administering the survey as records of your name and contact details are destroyed once the survey is concluded.