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NCVER: Podcast - Reimagining the tertiary education system (2023)

Vocational Voices S8, Episode 2 - This episode explores potential reforms to universities, their missions, and structures, while considering the role of VET. One perspective suggests establishing two types of universities: one focused on practical, hands-on learning for professional skills, and the other dedicated to research and comprehensive education.

Building effective RTO-employer partnerships: good practice guide (2023)

Based on case studies of RTO-employer partnerships that varied in terms of employer size, RTO type and industry, this good practice guide provides insights into effective strategies for RTOs that foster the development of quality partnerships with employers. A companion research report provides discussion and further insights related to the drivers, benefits and challenges of RTO-employer partnerships.

Apprenticeships and the digital transition: Modernising apprenticeships to meet digital skill needs (2024)

This publication draws from practice and research that explore how skill needs are changing due to the digital transition, how this impacts apprenticeship systems, how apprenticeships can support and promote the transition, and how they can benefit for from effective technology adoption and use in their delivery in the school-based and workplace components.

English Australia: Best Practice Guides (site link)

English Australia link to Best Practice Guides. English Australia regularly prepares Guides to Best Practice in ELICOS (Best Practice Guides), collating information provided by member institutions who represent the full spectrum of provider types, purposes and locations in Australia, and incorporating current TESOL research.

VET delivery in regional, rural and remote Australia: barriers and facilitators (2023)

This research investigated how the training sector could better meet the needs of regional, rural and remote Australia. It explored how various stakeholders in the VET system understand local skills needs, and the barriers faced by RTOs when delivering training in such locations.

Evaluating machine learning for projecting completion rates for VET programs (2023)

This paper summarises exploratory analysis undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of using machine learning approaches to calculate projected completion rates for vocational education and training (VET) programs, and compares this with the current approach used at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) — Markov chains methodology.

NCVER: Delivering high-quality VET: what matters to RTOs? (2022)

This report is the second part of a project investigating the quality of delivery in VET and how it might be better defined and measured. Based on consultation with high performing RTOs, the research finds that definitions of quality depend on an RTO’s purpose, mission, student characteristics and operating context.

Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) (2024)

The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI). This submission makes three key points in relation to opportunities to adopt AI in ways that will benefit economic growth, drawing from the Commission’s recent research.

ACER: Survey and Focus Groups of Students Enrolled in Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) Offshore (2018)

As part of the Australian Government’s National Strategy for International Education 2025, the Department of Education and Training commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to provide an overview of the demographics and experiences of students enrolled in Australian vocational education and training (VET) offshore.

Taylor & Francis Online: Designing assessment for inclusion: an exploration of diverse students’ assessment experiences (2022)

A students-as-partners approach was taken to explore diverse students’ experiences of assessment, and their suggestions to make assessment more inclusive. A team of six staff and five student partners undertook a co-research project, facilitating workshops with 52 students from diverse backgrounds to understand their assessment experiences.

NCVER: Podcast - Overcoming VET delivery challenges in regional Australia (2023)

Vocational Voices S8, episode 1 - Steve Davis interviews Joanne Payne, Managing Director, Central Regional TAFE in WA, Tabatha Griffin, Senior Research Officer, NCVER and Simon Walker, Managing Director, NCVER about these challenges and the need for diverse and flexible training approaches to better meet the needs of people in regional areas.

The Role of Industry in VET (2024)

The research project investigated: The different ways in which industry and VET can be defined and conceptualised in VET systems; The different roles that industry can play in VET systems; and Models for industry involvement in the development of VET teaching and learning, and potential models for contextualisation and implementation in Victoria and Australia.

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