15 September 2021
EDITION 17 - 2021
A VET workforce development strategy
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) has just released a consultation draft for a VET workforce development strategy.
It focuses on these four themes: capability frameworks and professional standards; industry currency, qualifications and entry pathways; professional development and support and supporting learner cohorts.
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Should we set up Centres of Vocational Excellence?
Some time ago we had the Institute of Trades Skills Excellence, which operated in Australia for a time as a model for promoting quality delivery in the trades. Centres of Vocational Excellence, or CoVEs are a more generic version of this approach. Is it worth a go?
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VET’s role in helping individual’s work-life pathways
Noted VET research Professor Stephen Billett shines a light on the way VET can play an important part in enabling individuals’ life pathways.
It embraces the idea of personal curriculums. Don’t know what that means? Read on!
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Latest training stats: What are they telling us?
NCVER has released the stats for both total VET activity and government-funded VET. What are the messages these two sets of data are telling us?
Compared with 2019, student numbers in government funded training were up 3.5%. On the other hand, total VET student numbers (3.9 million) were down 6.4% over those in 2019.
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UPCOMING VDC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
