NCVER

Data to monitor key performance and program measures for vocational education and training (VET) among school-aged youth in Australia is found in this report. These measures were developed in 2009 by the then Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce, at the request of the then Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs. They include the number and proportion of 15 to 19-year-old students who have successfully completed at least one unit of a competency/module as part of VET qualifications at Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) certificate II or above, as well as the number of 15 to 19-year-old students who have completed a VET qualification.

The current edition of Research messages brings together the key messages from all research reports published in 2013 in the following broad categories:

• Skills and productivity: from VET qualifications to higher-level qualifications and issues affecting the workforce
• Social inclusion and participation in education and training: equity groups and measuring socioeconomic disadvantage
• Young people: school, science and income support
• The VET sector: institutions, practices and the workforce
• Structures in the tertiary education and training system

NCVER's latest strategic plan provides direction for 2014-16. It outlines NCVER's vision, describes the five strategic directions and offers information about NCVER.

This report provides data to monitor key performance and program measures for VET among school-aged youth in Australia. These measures were developed in 2009 by the Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce, at the request of the then Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs. They include the number and proportion of 15 to 19 year-old students who have successfully completed at least one unit of competency/module as part of VET qualifications at AQF certificate II or above, as well as the number of 15 to 19 year-old students who have completed a VET qualification.

This document details the approach for the 2013 Survey of Employer Use and Views of the VET System, which has been in its current form since 2005. In 2011, NCVER sought feedback from users on the future content and methodology of the survey. This feedback was consolidated and an approach proposed that received strong support from users. Following development and testing, the content and methodology has now been finalised for the 2013 survey.

This publication is a collection of summaries of research projects published by NCVER in 2012. The publication also has an overview essay that captures the themes and highlights from the research for the year, including:

• the value of completing qualifications and skill sets
• trends in the labour market (skills mismatch, skills shortages and foreign labour mobility)
• pathways within and between VET, higher education and work
• continuing education for workers
• the education participation and experiences of equity groups
• the educational experiences of school students
• challenges faced by training providers and the broader tertiary education sector.

This publication provides information on tertiary education and training in Australia, including statistics on participation, pathways and outcomes. The data in this publication are sourced from the National VET Provider Collection and the Higher Education Statistics Collection. The publication covers participation in Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) certificate I qualifications through to doctorates by research, as well as enrolments in a single vocational subject. Information is presented on students and equivalent full-time students.

Further tables on pathways were added to the Excel data tables in March 2013.

This summary looks at the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), which follow young people as they make the transition from school to further study and work. It particularly focuses on research which gauges how concepts such as wellbeing and social capital are measured for students, as well as pathways from school to work, ‘at risk’ youth, and the effect of combining school and part-time work.

This publication provides a collection of summaries of research projects published by NCVER in 2011. It also offers an overview essay that captures the themes and highlights from the research for the year, including:

• the initial education and training of young people and their pathways to employment
• apprenticeships and traineeships, with a particular focus on completions
• the ongoing education and training of the learner groups — namely older workers, people with a disability, low paid workers and the unemployed
• trends in the labour market, including labour mobility, skills mismatch and skills shortages
• the role of vocational education and training (VET) in innovation and workforce development
• methodological and measurement issues.

This classification is made available in electronic format to assist those organisations providing data compliant to the AVETMISS. The specific funding file is a list of valid codes for the AVETMIS Standard.

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