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This infographic from the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) highlights important moments in federal US CTE policy, including major legislation and other activities, throughout more than a century. The timeline begins with the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, which launched federal investment in CTE. Since then, federal CTE policy has evolved in response to changing US economic and social conditions. The timeline continues with short descriptions of each version of federal legislation, ending in 2018 with Perkins V (Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act).

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The Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Kyoto Protocol, drive the Commonwealth government's environment program. Major focus areas are detailed in the report. The National Greenhouse Strategy (Australia's strategy to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol) is program based and is to be implemented as a partnership between the Commonwealth, state and local governments. The New South Wales (NSW) State Government has specific environment legislation as well as legislation that specifically addresses the vocational education and training (VET) system's contribution to environmental education. The NSW Council on Environmental Education was set up under The Protection of the Environment Administration (Environmental Education) Act 1998. Training Packages were generally thought to be deficient in addressing environmental issues and to lag behind the pace of legislative change and community expectations, though some effectively address environmental matters. A five step checklist has been developed to assist curriculum developers incorporate environmental content into curriculum. Show less

The Working Poor Families Project (WPFP) supports efforts of state nonprofit organizations to strengthen state policies that can assist families striving to work their way into the middle class and achieve economic security. WPFP encourages its partners to engage state policy makers to ensure that postsecondary education and skills development programs sufficiently serve and capably prepare low-skilled adults for family sustaining careers, in short to educate and train them for growing occupations that can support their families economically. To do so, states need to align systems and resources toward market-driven, skill-building strategies such as apprenticeship. A few states, including several with WPFP partners, are in the forefront of advancing public policies that support a broad-based expansion of apprenticeships. This brief describes state efforts for engaging employers through outreach, apprentice recruitment, and training subsidies while strengthening linkages to postsecondary and workforce development systems and improving rates of entry and successful completion of lowskilled adults. The brief makes specific policy recommendations and suggests strategies for ensuring their passage. Show less

This document reports on the operation of arrangements between the Commonwealth and States and Territories for payment by the Commonwealth in relation to the provision of technical and further education. Issues arising from the resource agreements are discussed. Show less

The 2019 Report on Vocational Education and Training describes the training place market situation in the 2017/2018 training year and documents the current challenges confronting vocational education and training in the German Federal Republic. Vocational education and training outcomes were primarily positive over the reporting year. There were 722,700 new entries into the training sector in the 2017/2018 training year, an increase of 10,300 or 1.4 per cent over the previous year.

This report covers: Vocational education and training policy priorities; The training market situation in 2018; The Federal Government's current vocational training policy measures and programmes; Overview of Federal Government training and labour market policy activities and programmes; and Opinions on this report from the Board of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, the group of employee representatives, the group of employer representatives, and the group of Lander representatives.

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In October 2002, [the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada] CMEC approved a strategy to improve credit transfer across Canada. Given the substantial differences in credit-transfer systems and postsecondary structures among provinces and territories, it was agreed that a pan-Canadian system of credit transfer should be built up over time, through an initial focus on developing and enhancing strong provincial/territorial transfer systems. Each province/territory committed to reviewing its current transfer arrangements and to developing a framework for action to enhance its credit-transfer system according to its own priorities over the period from 2002 to 2005. This report provides a summary of the actions undertaken by member jurisdictions of the working group.

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On 9 December 2020, the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (the bill) was introduced into the House of Representatives by the Hon Christian Porter MP, Minister for Industrial Relations. On 10 December 2020, the Senate referred the provisions of the bill to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee (the committee) for inquiry and report by 12 March 2021. The bill would amend the Fair Work Act 2009 (Fair Work Act) and related legislation to: introduce a statutory definition of casual employment; create a statutory pathway to ongoing employment by including a casual conversion entitlement in the National Employment Standards of the Fair Work Act; extend two temporary JobKeeper flexibilities in identified industries significantly impacted by the [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 pandemic; introduce part-time flexibility provisions across identified modern awards; streamline the enterprise agreement making and approval process; prevent the transfer of industrial instruments where an employee transfers between associated entities at the employee's initiative; allow the extension of the nominal life of greenfield agreements made in relation to the construction of a major project; strengthen the Fair Work Act compliance and enforcement framework; and introduce measures to support the efficiency of Fair Work Commission processes.

Chapter 2 outlines the background to the bill, as well as its key provisions. Chapter 3 sets out the key issues raised by submitters and witnesses and sets out the committee view.

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The purpose of this newsletter was to keep Western Australian Department of Employment, Vocational Education and Training (DEVET) and Western Australian Department of Training staff up to date on State and National policy directions. Show less

The VOCEDplus landmark documents are key documents considered by history and authoritative commentary to have influenced the development of the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system, providing vision and/or leading to significant change. This paper is part of a series of forthcoming overviews that analyse and describe how these landmark documents impacted on the development of various aspects of Australia's VET sector.

This overview considers the history of the funding of VET across five decades. It draws on a range of reports, reviews, statistical data and relevant landmark reports to examine public and private funding and its distribution among public and private providers, employers, and students. The overview also explores evidence on the effects of various government policies for the use of funds in relation to the goals of the VET system. It focuses on the following landmark documents: Successful reform: competitive skills for Australians and Australian enterprises [FitzGerald report] (TD/LMR 85.636); Young people's participation in post-compulsory education and training: report of the Australian Education Council Review Committee [Finn review] (TD/LMR 85.641); Review of Australian higher education [Bradley review] (TD/LMR 85.696); Education, training and employment: report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training [Williams report] (TD/LMR 85.677); Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Labour Market Programs [Kirby report] (TD/LMR 85.649); TAFE in Australia: report on needs in technical and further education [Kangan report] (TD/LMR 85.637); Industry training in Australia: the need for change [Dawkins] (TD/LMR 85.664); Improving Australia's training system [Dawkins] (TD/LMR 85.676); Skills for Australia [Dawkins and Holding] (TD/LMR 85.648); Australia reconstructed: ACTU/TDC Mission to Western Europe (TD/LMR 85.647); The Australian Vocational Certificate Training System [Carmichael report] (TD/LMR 85.646); One Nation: statement by the Prime Minister, the Honourable P. J. Keating MP, 26 February 1992 (TD/LMR 85.707); Creating a future direction for Australian vocational education and training (TD/LMR 102.715); Training costs of award restructuring: report of the Training Costs Review Committee [Deveson report] (TD/LMR 85.635). Show less

The Senate Select Committee on Job Security (the committee) was appointed by resolution of the Senate on 10 December 2020. The committee was established to inquire into and report on the impact of insecure or precarious employment on the economy, wages, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions, with particular reference to: (a) the extent and nature of insecure or precarious employment in Australia; (b) the risks of insecure or precarious work exposed or exacerbated by the [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 crisis; (c) workplace and consumer trends and the associated impact on employment arrangements in sectors of the economy including the 'gig' and 'on-demand' economy; (d) the aspirations of Australians including income and housing security, and dignity in retirement; (e) the effectiveness, application and enforcement of existing laws, regulations, the industrial relations system and other relevant policies; (f) accident compensation schemes, payroll, federal and state and territory taxes; (g) the interaction of government agencies and procurement policies with insecure work and the 'on-demand' economy; and (h) any related matters. The committee was initially due to report on 30 November 2021. On 19 October 2021, the Senate agreed to extend the presentation of the final report until the last sitting day in February 2022.

This first interim report, tabled on 24 June 2021, examined employment arrangements in the gig economy and the adequacy of existing legislative and policy approaches, and proposed a number of reforms.

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