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This product provides a summary of employers’ use and views of the vocational education and training (VET) system and focuses on employer engagement and satisfaction with both accredited and unaccredited training.

Information was derived from the 2021 Survey of Employers’ Use and Views of the VET System, which is a biennial survey of Australian employers. The survey collects information on the various ways employers meet their skill needs. Through accredited training this may include hiring staff with vocational qualifications, employing apprentices and trainees, or providing staff with other nationally recognised training. Employers can also utilise or provide unaccredited and other forms of training. The survey was conducted between February and June 2021 and results relate to employers’ training experiences in the preceding 12 months.

In 2021:

• 56.6% of employers used accredited training to meet their training needs, up 5.7 percentage points from 2019
• 40.2% of employers had jobs that require vocational qualifications, up 6.0 percentage points from 2019
  • Of these, 74.3% were satisfied that vocational qualifications provide employees with the skills they need for the job
• 27.4% of employers had apprentices and trainees, up 4.2 percentage points from 2019
  • Of these, 74.2% were satisfied that apprentices and trainees are getting the skills they need from training
• 27.1% of employers arranged or provided their employees with nationally recognised training (other than through apprenticeships and traineeships), up 7.2 percentage points from 2019
  • Of these, 78.7% were satisfied that nationally recognised training provides employees with the skills they need for the job.

This publication provides an estimate of the extent and nature of nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) delivered in 2020 by Australian registered training providers. This picture of training activity is known as ‘total VET activity’, to reflect that the information reports on students who undertook government funded training and those who undertook training on a fee-for-service basis.

This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects and training providers in Australia’s government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system, defined as all Commonwealth and state/territory government-funded training delivered by technical and further education (TAFE) institutes, other government providers (such as universities), private providers and community education providers.

This publication presents information on VET in Schools, the vocational education and training (VET) undertaken by school students as part of their senior secondary certificate of education. The VET in Schools arrangement offers two main options: students can undertake school-based apprenticeships and traineeships; or they can take VET subjects and courses as part of their school curriculum (the latter is referred to as ‘other VET in Schools programs’).

The latest version of this DataBuilder allows users to quickly create customised tables using the latest VET in Schools data, filter by a selection of variables and compare training activity over time. There are four separate datasets available: students, program enrolments, program completions and subject enrolments.

This publication presents completion and attrition rates for apprentices and trainees using three different methodologies:

• contract completion and attrition rates: based on the outcomes of contracts of training
• individual completion rates: based on contract completion rates and adjusted for recommencement factor
• projected contract completion and attrition rates for the latest commencing apprentice and trainee cohorts: based on a 'life tables' methodology.

Individual completion rates for apprentices and trainees commencing in 2016 were:

• 56.1% for all occupations, down 1.5 percentage points from those commencing in 2015
• 55.1% for trade occupations, down 2.5 percentage points from those commencing in 2015
• 56.5% for non-trade occupations, down 1.2 percentage points from those commencing in 2015.

An individual may complete their training under more than one contract if they change employers or take a break from their training. Contract completion rates for apprentices and trainees commencing in 2016 were:

• 48.3% for all occupations, down 1.4 percentage points from those commencing in 2015
• 42.5% for trade occupations, down 2.3 percentage points from those commencing in 2015
• 53.8% for non-trade occupations, down 1.1 percentage points from those commencing in 2015.

This publication presents information on how different equity groups fare in their VET journey. The featured equity groups have historically been disadvantaged in accessing and benefitting from education in Australia. We focus on their participation, achievement in and outcomes from VET.

The full data is available to download below with details of the data sources and definitions.

International onshore VET qualification completer outcomes 2020 provides a summary of the outcomes of international students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) qualification in Australia in 2019. These students were surveyed as an additional component to the 2020 National Student Outcomes Survey.

To access the most recently released DataBuilder for International onshore VET qualification completer outcomes please see the collection page.

The DataBuilder provides extensive data on the outcomes of international students who completed a nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) qualification in Australia during the previous calendar year. These students were surveyed as an additional component to the National Student Outcomes Survey. Data is presented on international onshore VET qualification completers' satisfaction with training, reasons for training, and their employment and further study outcomes. Users can filter by a selection of variables (including by state or territory), view the margins of error (to determine the amount of certainty/error in survey estimates) and export their results.

Research messages brings together a summary of publicly released research produced by NCVER each year. This year’s compilation includes a wide array of research activities undertaken during 2020, comprising research reports, presentations, podcasts, submissions and webinars, the 29th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference ‘No Frills’, and VOCEDplus knowledge resources curation.