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Overview of the Australian apprenticeship and traineeship system

The Australian government recognises that a strong Australian Apprenticeship system is essential to sustain a stron ... Show more
The Australian government recognises that a strong Australian Apprenticeship system is essential to sustain a strong economy. Accordingly, an Expert Panel was appointed to provide recommendations to the government on possible ways to reform the system to ensure that it can meet Australia's skills needs into the 21st century. The panel examined apprenticeship training arrangements, including current incentives, and suggested principles and evidence to improve outcomes for both apprentices and industry. The work of the panel was underpinned by a study on related economic costs and benefits, including research undertaken by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). This report is the first of four prepared by NCVER for the panel and it is intended to provide a background to the other reports which focus on specific aspects of the apprenticeship and traineeship system. The report is structured around four individual papers. The first is a history of apprenticeship and traineeship in Australia. This is followed by a characterisation of apprentices and trainees - apprentices and trainees of today cover a much broader span of individuals than the common perception of an apprentice being a young man in blue overalls. While not strictly part of an apprenticeship or traineeship, prevocational training exists as a pathway into an apprenticeship or traineeship rather than for its own sake. It thus makes sense to consider them alongside the apprenticeship and traineeship system, which is what is done in the third paper. The report concludes with some estimates of the cost of the system to the government. Show less

Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Government report or paper

Series name: A shared responsibility: apprenticeships for the 21st century

Subjects: Apprenticeship; Vocational education and training; Governance ... [+] Show more
Australian vocational education and training statistics: student outcomes survey 2002: national report

This report presents the results from the 2002 national survey of students who undertook vocational education and t ... Show more
This report presents the results from the 2002 national survey of students who undertook vocational education and training (VET) during 2002. The survey covered TAFE graduates and TAFE module completers.
TAFE graduates were defined as students who attended a TAFE institute in Australia and who completed a Certificate, Advanced Certificate, Associate Diploma, Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Bachelors Degree of at least 200 hours or one semester duration, and had an Australian address as their usual address. A questionnaire was sent to a stratified, randomly selected sample of graduates (approximately 42,000 graduates).
TAFE module completers were defined as students who were not graduates, had attended a TAFE institute in Australia and successfully completed some training in a course irrespective of the number of hours of the training, and left the TAFE system. A similar questionnaire to that which was sent to graduates was sent to a stratified, randomly selected sample of module completers (approximately 8,000 module completers).
The information collected in the survey includes: the nature of the training undertaken; the outcomes achieved as a result of completing the training in relation to employment; an indication of whether students were satisfied with the training; and whether students achieved the goals they had set for themselves before commencement. This report presents key results at a national level, giving an overview of the results and exploring the trends that emerge when comparisons are made with previous survey data. This national report is complemented by a briefer publication: Australian vocational education and training statistics: student outcomes survey 2002: in summary (TD/TNC 71.12). Show less

Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2003

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Series name: NCVER Student outcomes survey

Subjects: Employment; Outcomes; Students ... [+] Show more
Delivery of VET offshore by public providers, 2004

This report presents the results of a consultancy undertaken in 2005 by the National Centre for Vocational Educatio ... Show more
This report presents the results of a consultancy undertaken in 2005 by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) for Australian Education International (AEI), Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The aim of this project was to collect statistics about the extent of, and characteristics of, offshore delivery of vocational education and training (VET) by Australian public providers.
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Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2005

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Series name: Delivery of VET offshore by VET public providers

Subjects: Vocational education and training; International education; Students ... [+] Show more
Delivery of VET offshore by public providers, 2010

This report aims to define, quantify and characterise Australian vocational education and training (VET) programs d ... Show more
This report aims to define, quantify and characterise Australian vocational education and training (VET) programs delivered offshore during 2010 by public VET providers. It provides statistical information about the public providers active overseas, the courses they delivered and the students who enrolled in those courses. It builds on data collections covering 2003-09. This collection covers the years 2006-10. Data for 2003-05 can be found by referring to previous collections.
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Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Series name: Delivery of VET offshore by VET public providers

Subjects: Vocational education and training; International education; Students ... [+] Show more
Historical time series of government-funded vocational education and training from 1981[-2014]

This time series presents a summary of training activity in government-funded vocational education and training (VE ... Show more
This time series presents a summary of training activity in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) in Australia for the period 1981-2014. A timeline of major policy changes affecting VET in Australia from the mid-1970s to the present is provided to give the summary information context. The data tables which follow present student numbers by selected training characteristics for the full period 1981-2014. For the period 1996-2014, a more detailed breakdown of the data is provided, with student, subject enrolment, program enrolment, and program completion figures presented by selected training characteristics.
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Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2015

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Subjects: Statistics; Vocational education and training; Policy ... [+] Show more
Australian vocational education and training statistics 2001: student outcomes survey at a glance: South Australia

This publication presents a summary of information gained from the national survey of students who undertook vocati ... Show more
This publication presents a summary of information gained from the national survey of students who undertook vocational education and training (VET) during 2000 at a TAFE institute in South Australia. Information is given about two groups of students: graduates and module completers. Graduates were those students who completed their course during 2000 and graduated with a qualification. Module completer information was collected on students who successfully completed part, but not all, of the training necessary to complete a full qualification and had left the TAFE system at the time of the survey. The survey gathered information on the employment situation of TAFE graduates, reasons for undertaking the course, relevance of the training to their employment, satisfaction, and further study intentions. This document contains a summary of the data collected and a brief look at some of the findings from analysis of these data.
A related publication 'Australian vocational education and training statistics 2001: student outcomes survey: in summary' may be found at TD/TNC 67.582; 'At a glance' publications for each state and territory may be found from TD/TNC 67.583 to TD/TNC 67.590. Show less

Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2001

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia; South Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Series name: NCVER Student outcomes survey

Subjects: Vocational education and training; Students; Outcomes ... [+] Show more
Australian vocational education and training statistics: government-funded students and courses, 2014: preliminary

This publication presents preliminary figures for the number of students, subject enrolments, hours of delivery and ... Show more
This publication presents preliminary figures for the number of students, subject enrolments, hours of delivery and full-year training equivalents relating to Australia's government-funded (public) vocational education and training (VET) system for 2014. As the figures are preliminary, they may be subject to change as further processing of the data is undertaken. Final data, with more detail and a wider range of variables, are expected to be released in late June 2015. This publication supersedes the 'Australian vocational education and training statistics: students and courses' series.
Highlights include: the number of students enrolled in the publicly funded VET system declined by 3.5 per cent in 2014 compared with 2013; student numbers increased in the Northern Territory (9.2 per cent), Queensland (4.9 per cent), Tasmania (1.8 per cent) and New South Wales (0.1 per cent); subject enrolments declined to 15.9 million in 2014, a 1.2 per cent decrease from the previous year; hours of delivery and full-year training equivalents both increased by 1.1 per cent between 2013 and 2014; students undertaking diploma or higher qualifications increased by 5.9 per cent between 2013 and 2014, while certificate qualifications (certificates I-IV) declined by 4.3 per cent overall for the same period.
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Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2015

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Subjects: Statistics; Students; Participation ... [+] Show more
Research messages 2010

This publication is a collection of summaries of research projects published by the National Centre for Vocational ... Show more
This publication is a collection of summaries of research projects published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The summaries are clustered under five broad themes used by NCVER to organise its research and analysis: Industry and employers; Students and individuals; Teaching and learning: VET system; and VET in context. Research messages 2010 also has an overview essay that captures the themes and highlights from the research for the year. Show less

Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: General publication

Subjects: Numeracy; Teaching and learning; Students ... [+] Show more
Total VET students and courses 2014: infographic

This infographic provides the first ever estimates of the nature and extent of accredited vocational education and ... Show more
This infographic provides the first ever estimates of the nature and extent of accredited vocational education and training (VET) delivered by Australian training providers in domestic and overseas locations in 2014. This picture of training activity is known as 'total VET activity' (TVA), to reflect that the information is now collected from all types of providers, not only those in receipt of Commonwealth or state funding, as previously reported by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) under Government-funded students and courses.
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Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2015

Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia

Resource type: Statistical series

Series name: Snapshot of vocational education and training in Australia: infographics

Subjects: Vocational education and training; Providers of education and training; Students ... [+] Show more
Government-funded students and courses 2016: infographic

This infographic provides a snapshot of Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) syste ... Show more
This infographic provides a snapshot of Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system, broadly defined as all activity delivered by government providers and government-funded activity delivered by community education and other registered providers. It presents statistics about student characteristics, qualifications completed, where and what students studied, and participation rates. More information including longer term trends, detailed data and explanatory notes are available. The states and territories are diverse in terms of economies, industry and VET policy and this needs to be considered in any detailed analysis.
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Corporate authors: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Date: 2017

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Statistical series

Subjects: Vocational education and training; Providers of education and training; Students ... [+] Show more