Australian vocational education and training statistics: total VET students and courses 2020

This publication provides an estimate of the extent and nature of nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) delivered in 2020 by Australian registered training providers. This picture of training activity is known as 'total VET activity', to reflect that the information reports on students who undertook government funded training and those who undertook training on a fee-for-service basis. In 2020: 3.9 million students were enrolled in nationally recognised VET, down 6.4 per cent from 2019; 3,519 registered training organisations (RTOs) delivered nationally recognised...  [+] Show more

This publication provides an estimate of the extent and nature of nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) delivered in 2020 by Australian registered training providers. This picture of training activity is known as 'total VET activity', to reflect that the information reports on students who undertook government funded training and those who undertook training on a fee-for-service basis.

In 2020: 3.9 million students were enrolled in nationally recognised VET, down 6.4 per cent from 2019; 3,519 registered training organisations (RTOs) delivered nationally recognised VET; and an estimated 21.7 per cent of the Australian resident population aged 15 to 64 years participated in nationally recognised VET in Australia. In 2020, compared with 2019: full-year training equivalents (FYTEs) decreased by 5.9 per cent to 1.0 million; students enrolled in nationally recognised programs decreased by 2.4 per cent to 2.1 million; and students enrolled in subjects not delivered as part of a nationally recognised program decreased by 9.9 per cent to 2.4 million. By funding source: government-funded students increased by 4.3 per cent to 1.3 million and FYTEs decreased by 10.0 per cent to 494,100; domestic fee-for-service students decreased by 10.4 per cent to 2.8 million and FYTEs decreased by 2.7 per cent to 387,500; and international fee-for-service students decreased by 1.2 per cent to 222,500 and FYTEs increased by 1.0 per cent to 139,000.

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