Vendor training in NSW

This report was commissioned by the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training as a scoping study of vendor training in NSW. This is the training provided by the manufacturers and/or suppliers of equipment and/or software to the end-users. The report covers both vendor certified training, where the vendor provides assessment and certification of skills, and vendor training which is not linked to any form of certification. There may, or may not, be links between this training and the formal accreditation system. Indeed, this relationship between accredited training and vendor training is one of the key themes pursued in this report. This report aims to be a preliminary investigation of the field. It examines some of the existing literature on vendor training and presents some findings from interviews conducted in the field with [industry training advisory bodies] ITABs, trainers and vendors. In addition it presents a large amount of unpublished data based on the unit records files of a number of surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).

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