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The development of Australia's national training system - a dynamic tension between consistency and flexibility 2016

NCVER publication reflecting on VET's history and the pursuit of both consistency and flexibility

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.

NCVER Student entitlement models in Australia's national training system - expert views 2016

NCVER publication of the views of ‘thought leaders’ in the VET sector focusing on student entitlement reforms that were introduced

NCVER VET Knowledge Bank

This VET Knowledge Bank provides key information and statistics which give a holistic overview of the VET Sector to inform readers while getting to know VET as it stands today

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.

2024 Global Human Capital Trends (2024)

The 2024 Global Human Capital Trends research reveals that a focus on the human factor is emerging as the bridge between knowing what shifts are shaping the future of work and doing things to make real progress toward putting them into action to create positive outcomes.

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.

Regional Education Commissioner Annual Report 2022 (2023)

This Annual Report covers the Regional Education Commissioner’s activities from December 2021 to November 2022. It provides a national snapshot of regional and remote education from early childhood to higher education, and details stakeholder consultation, cross-sector research projects and future work.

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.

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