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OECD - Skills (site link)

The OECD helps countries to improve skills governance and the design of both VET programmes and adult learning systems that are responsive to changing skill needs. It supports policymakers through better evidence on the skills of adults and employer needs as well as through advice on good policy practices.

National Skills Agreement Overview (2023)

The National Skills Agreement is a 5-year agreement between the Australian, State and Territory Governments, working in partnership to ensure that the national vocational education and training (VET) system provides high-quality, responsive and accessible education and training to boost productivity, deliver national priorities and support Australians to obtain the skills and capabilities they need to obtain well-paid, secure jobs.

Skilling Australia Foundation: Perceptions Are Not Reality: myths, realities & the critical role of vocational education & training in Australia (2017)

Using a range of local and international data sources as well as real-life success stories, this report addresses some of these pervasive and inaccurate perceptions about vocational education and, also, highlights the importance of including VET pathways in the overall discussion about our nation’s long-term educational strategies and employment solutions.

Webinar Recording: A Guide to Marking Guides!

Recorded on the 14/10/2020, this 90-minute, highly interactive session, streams our VET Expert (John Dwyer) directly to you! Unpack the most critical components of marking guides and their importance as part of an assessment tool in this session.

Effective student support: enabling the learner journey - good practice guide (2025)

This Good Practice Guide presents six key elements of effective student support that help foster training success through the learner journey. Based on examples of good practice, this guide presents a model for providing a whole-of-institution, learner-centred approach to VET student support for improving program completion.

Webinar Recording: RPL: What IS the Professional Conversation?

Recorded on 23/10/2019 as part of National VET PD Week, a Professional Conversation, when used appropriately in RPL, has the opportunity to gather ‘direct evidence’. It enables the candidate to identify how they have ‘applied’ their knowledge in a practical situation. So how do we accurately conduct and record the Professional Conversation? Find out in this webinar.

Webinar Recording: NVPDW: Designing a Robust and User-Friendly RPL Process

Recorded on 28/10/2020 and forming part of the National VET PD Week, this 90 minute session that includes an extra Q&A session looks at a number of concepts that should drive the design and implementation of an effective and efficient, user-friendly RPL process.

NCVER: Podcast - Skill sets: their role now and into the future (2020)

Vocational Voices S4, Episode 2 - Steve Davis talks to NCVER Managing Director Simon Walker and Jenny Lambert, Director Employment, Education & Training at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. They start by defining what skill sets and micro-credentials actually are and the role they currently play in the VET system.

Webinar Recording: LLN Testing - Keeping it simple and getting it right

Recorded on 24/10/2019 as part of National VET PD Week, this webinar explored LLN testing and how the ACSF provides a structure for the identification of LLN needs, and to contextualise learning and assessment materials to ensure underpinning competencies are demonstrated.

CEDEFOP: Teachers and trainers in a changing world (2022)

This 2022 synthesis paper published by CEDEFOP points out that “teachers and trainers are at the frontline of VET delivery.” To do their job effectively requires that “they (re)skill and upskill towards future-oriented competences, which they can then pass on to students.”

Focus Week: Real-World Ready: Flexible and Contextualised Workplace Practical Assessments

Recorded on 27/07/2023 and forming part of Velg Training's Focus Week on Assessment Tools and Practices, explore innovative strategies for creating observation assessment instruments that accommodate diverse contexts and environments. Empower your VET assessments to provide real-world readiness!

Webinar Recording: TAE PD Week - Designing and Developing Learning that Sticks!

Recorded on 30/11/2020 and forming part of the TAE PD Week, this webinar provided nine ways to create more meaningful or “sticky” learning that will influence the effective design, development, and review of learning programs within the vocational education and training (VET) context.

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