VET teaching in the tertiary education sector: New horizons and possibilities for policy and practice The 11th Annual Conference on VET Teaching and VET Teacher Education will be held on the 11th-12th December 2025 at the Ann Harding Conference ... Read More
The increasing priority governments are placing on VET and particularly VET delivery and student support, is shown in the NCVER’s Government funding of VET 2024 report. It shows that between 2019 and 2024 government expenditure on VET increased by ... Read More
A new report from the Digital Education Council, AI for Student Engagement: A Global Review of Emerging Strategies offers a comprehensive review of AI in student engagement drawing on more than 100 case studies. In doing so it identifies 24 ... Read More
The 2023 OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) has expended its focus by assessing not only literacy, numeracy, and problem solving skill levels amongst adults, but also adults’ social and emotional skills, ie agreeableness, conscientiousness, ... Read More
The NCVER has released the latest data from the long-running Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth: Generation Z: life after COVID. The survey of Australia’s 15-24 year olds “brings together information from LSAY participants who commenced the ... Read More
The OECD have just released data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) which is the “largest survey of teachers and principals” collecting internationally comparable information from 280,000 educators in schools in 52 countries ... Read More
Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) has released the 2025 Occupation Shortage List and it shows that only 29% of occupations are now in shortage compared with 36% in 2023 and 33% in 2024. They note that this improvement is a result of there being: ... Read More
In our last edition of VDC News we looked at skills development for some of our youngest learners in VET (school students and youth skills development initiatives more broadly). In this edition we’re turning our focus to the skills needs of older ... Read More
The NCVER has released data on student enrolments in government-funded VET for the first half of this calendar year. They have also introduced a number of new graphs and charts to represent the data visually and VDC News commends them for making this ... Read More
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