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First Nations and migrant learners’ experiences with foundation skills courses (2025)

This research uniquely amplifies the voices of First Nations and migrant learners who have disengaged from foundation skills courses. By understanding their goals, experiences, and recommendations, ways to better support their completion are identified.

Interpreting Quality Indicator Data

ACER’s website link to an AQTF 2007 guide on ‘Interpreting Quality Indicator data’

Essential skills for learning (2025)

This report argues that the growing emphasis on skills indicates a refocus for education systems, which should focus on essential skills with a high impact on learning. It identifies five such skills: critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and self-regulation.

'If you don’t think racism exists come take a walk with us' (2025)

Racism remains an insidious and all too common aspect of life for Indigenous people in Australia. This second annual report from the Call It Out project, covering March 2023 to March 2024, includes 453 reports of racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Timeline of Australian VET policy initiatives 1998-2023

This resource helps understand the scale of change and the individual policies, programs or initiatives that have shaped VET at both the national and state and territory level. The resource includes economic events that may have influenced enrolments and completions of VET courses, apprenticeships and traineeships.

NCVER: Do course durations matter to training quality and outcomes? (2019)

The research was conducted in two parts: a qualitative analysis through consultations with providers, regulators and industry stakeholders to investigate how course durations affect the quality of training, and a quantitative analysis of course durations and how they affect subject outcomes.

NCVER: Adding value to competency based training (2022)

This research examines the strengths and weaknesses of competency-based training as it is currently applied to the Australian VET system and whether there is cause to consider a broader approach to defining and describing competence and hence considering how best teaching and learning in VET is delivered and assessed.

ACER: Revision or Re-vision: Exploring approaches to the differentiation of qualification types in the Australian Qualifications Framework (2019)

In March 2019, the Department of Education commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to conduct a conceptual analysis of the most appropriate way to develop and present a taxonomy of learning outcomes within a qualifications framework; and a technical analysis and revision of the Knowledge, Skills and Application of Knowledge and Skills descriptors used in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).

Measuring What Matters Australia’s First Wellbeing Framework (2023)

This Measuring What Matters Statement is the first iteration of Australia's national wellbeing framework. The Framework can help us to better understand what matters most to Australians — to build a healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous Australia for everyone. The Framework has been developed through extensive research and consultation to identify the best available indicators of Australia’s wellbeing.

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.

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