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NCVER: Podcast - VET in Schools and the shadow of ATAR (2022)

Vocational Voices S7, episode 1 - Professor Peter Shergold AC, who chaired a major review for Commonwealth, State and Territory Ministers of Education on senior secondary school pathways (Looking to the Future), and Simon Walker, Managing Director, NCVER talk to Steve Davis about whether people are overestimating the impact of ATAR on a student’s future career prospects, and the proliferation of pathways that can be followed to find a future career.

The Reading Guarantee (2024)

The Grattan report calls on all Australian state and territory governments, and Catholic and independent school sector leaders, to commit to a six-step ‘Reading Guarantee’.

Fragmentation & Photo-Ops The Failures of Australian Skills Policy Through COVID (2022)

Report argues that Australia’s VET system once provided well-established and dependable education-to-jobs pathways, but a combination of policy vandalism and fiscal mismanagement plunged the VET system into a lasting and multidimensional crisis.

Future delivery of foundation skills training in remote Australia Discussion paper – December 2022

At the Jobs and Skills Summit in September 2022, the Australian government committed to reinvigorate Commonwealth foundation skills programs to improve access and outcomes for all Australians, including a particular focus on the design and delivery arrangements for remote Australia.

TAC (WA) - Special Bulletin - Strategic Review into Third Party Arrangements - March 2020

Strategic review into third party arrangements entered into by Registered Training Organisations

Australian Government: Australian Blueprint for Career Development (2022)

The Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the Blueprint) is a framework that can be used to design, implement, and evaluate intentional career development learning for people of all ages and stages, beginning in early childhood.

ASQA clarifies position on credit transfers (2022)

ASQA position on credit transfer for superseded equivalent units of competency, in response to requests for advice from the regulator.

Mandatory Workplace Requirements: Good Practice Guide (2022)

The Mandatory Workplace Requirements (MWR) Good Practice Guide aims to provide consistency and clarity to training product developers when determining, justifying, and drafting MWR for inclusion in training products.

AiGroup: Skills, Education & Training – Federal Election Policy Statement (2022)

Ai Group’s skills, education and training policy proposals for the 2022 federal election focus on three areas: improving our approach to skills needs, qualifications, education and training; the opportunities presented by work-integrated learning (including apprenticeships); and the importance of developing foundation skills – including in workplaces.

International onshore VET qualification completer outcomes 2022 (2023)

International onshore VET qualification completer outcomes 2022 provides a summary of the outcomes of international students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) qualification in Australia in 2021. These students were surveyed as an additional component to the 2022 National Student Outcomes Survey.

Australian Government: All eyes on quality: review of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 report [Braithwaite review] (2018)

Professor Valerie Braithwaite from the Australian National University conducted the review to determine the legislative capacity of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) to efficiently and effectively regulate the sector, evaluate if ASQA's functions and powers are consistent with best regulatory practice and assess the ability of the system to meet industry and student needs.

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