Australian vocational education and training statistics: government-funded students and courses: January to September 2022

This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects, and training providers in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system. Government-funded is defined as Commonwealth and/or state or territory government funded training delivered by contracted training organisations. Data for the Government-funded students and courses series are received by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in four cumulative submissions: January to March, submitted in May; January to June, submitted in August; January to...  [+] Show more

This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects, and training providers in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system. Government-funded is defined as Commonwealth and/or state or territory government funded training delivered by contracted training organisations. Data for the Government-funded students and courses series are received by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in four cumulative submissions: January to March, submitted in May; January to June, submitted in August; January to September, submitted in November; and January to December, submitted in March. This allows additional data to be reported and corrections made to previously submitted data. The data in this publication cover the period of 1 January to 30 September 2022. For comparative purposes it examines data for the same period of the previous year.

In the first nine months to 30 September 2022, 1,055,585 students were enrolled in government-funded VET in Australia. They included: 1,026,450 students enrolled in nationally recognised training and 52,200 students enrolled in non-nationally recognised training. There were 1,245,845 government-funded program enrolments in Australia comprised of: 90.2 per cent in nationally recognised programs; 84.5 per cent were in qualifications; 5.6 per cent were in training package skill sets and accredited courses; 6.9 per cent in locally developed programs; and 2.9 per cent in non-nationally recognised programs. Of the 84.5 per cent of government-funded program enrolments in Australia in nationally recognised qualifications: 77.3 per cent were in training package qualifications and 7.2 per cent were in accredited qualifications.

In the first nine months to 30 September 2022, there were 1,052,985 government-funded nationally recognised qualification enrolments in Australia. The most popular level of education was Certificate III (527,285 or 50.1 per cent), followed by Certificate IV (210,635 or 20.0 per cent).

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