24 November 2021
EDITION 22 - 2021
VET teaching, learning and assessment: What works and why
This article highlights a 2014 paper by Britain’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) focused on what makes for outstanding teaching, learning and assessment. None of these messages in this article are surprising or, in fact, new!
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Workplace learning: how much and how good?
A newly released paper from NCVER authored by Kristen Osborne summarises the trends in workplace-based delivery of subjects for VET students.
It also seeks to identify the factors that affect outcomes, and “attempts to quantify the positive effects of workplace-based delivery.”
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Happy 40th birthday NCVER!
On 2 November 2021, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) turned 40!
It started life in 1981 as the TAFE National Centre for Research and Development, with an initial staff of around 11 and a focus on research and development, including the development of national core curricula.
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Emerging issues with the TAE
A new issues register has been developed by Skills for Australia and is available on their website. This register is a living, breathing document that will be updated every month or so. There is also an associated feedback survey on the issues raised in the register or other issues that might occur to VDC News readers about the TAE.
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Introducing Velocity Legal: Gold Sponsor of the VDC Teaching & Learning Conference
Understanding your business
The education sector can be a complex place. We understand that offering an excellent education service and providing a quality student experience amongst the myriad of legislation and regulation can be challenging. Velocity Legal provides speciality legal solutions for RTOs to help business owners navigate the complex process of legal compliance.
From understanding complicated funding agreements, managing the risks of engaging with third parties, or assisting RTOs that find themselves facing an adverse regulatory decision, we can help.
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Introducing ReadyTech: Gold Sponsor of the VDC Teaching & Learning Conference
Can you gift your students a lifelong learning mindset?
A passion for lifelong learning could be the greatest gift educators have to offer their students – while being great for the business bottom line.
Many education providers would argue instilling a lifelong learning mindset is the job of the K-12 education system, or even early education. By helping to ignite in younger students that natural hunger for learning we’re all born with, they should already be primed by the start of adulthood.
But our efforts shouldn’t stop there. As a learning culture, we still have a static view of where a tertiary VET or higher ed program will take us once we have the requisite knowledge and skills. We often paper over a volatile, changing reality with the promise of a steady job for our entire lives.
We aren’t getting real with students about work. Or encouraging the lifelong learning they’ll need.
Can we do better?
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