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Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme
Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme
Accelerated training
Acceleration
Access and equity
Access course
Access Program
Accredited course
Accredited qualification
Accredited short course
Accredited training
ACE sector
Adult and community education
Adult basic education
Adult education
Adult learning
Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey
Adult migrant education
Adult Migrant English Program
Adult, community and further education
Advanced certificate
Advanced diploma
Advanced standing
Adverse selection
Annual National Report of the Australian VET system
ANTA Agreement
Apprentice
Apprenticeable occupation
Apprenticeship
Approving authority
Articulation
Assessment
Assessment for learning
Assessment materials
Assessment of learning
Assessment requirements
Assessment system
Assessment tools
Assessment validation
Associate degree
Associate diploma
Attainment
Attrition
Auspicing
Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
Australian Apprenticeship Support Network
Australian Apprenticeships
Australian Apprenticeships Access Program
Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Information Service
Australian Apprenticeships Centres
Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program
Australian Apprenticeships Management System
Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education
Australian Core Skills Framework
Australian Flexible Learning Framework
Australian Quality Training Framework
Australian Recognition Framework
Australian School-based Apprenticeships
Australian Skills Quality Authority
Australian Standard Classification of Education
Australian Standard Classification of Occupations
Australian Standard Industrial Classification
Australian Standards Framework
Australian Technical Colleges
Australian Traineeship System
Australian Training Awards
Australian Vocational Certificate Training System
Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard
Australian Vocational Training System
AUSTUDY
Award course

C

Cadetship
Career Advice Australia
Career education
Career guidance and counselling
Career Start Traineeships
Certificates I-IV
Certificates in General Education for Adults
Certificates in Spoken and Written English
Clustered qualifications
Clustering
Commencements
Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentices in Full-time Training
Communities of Practice
Community college
Community education provider
Comparability of qualifications
Competency
Competency-based assessment
Competency based completion
Competency-based training
Competency standard
Completions
Compliance audit
Contextualisation
Continuing education
Continuing vocational education and training
Contract of training
Cooperative Research Centres Program
Core competency
Correctional education
Course accreditation
Cream-skimming
Credit arrangement
Credit for prior training
Credit transfer
Cross-cultural training
Cross-sector institutions
Current competency

N

National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development
National Apprenticeship Assistance Scheme
National Employment and Training Taskforce
National Framework for the Recognition of Training
National Industry Career Specialists
National Reporting System
National Skills Framework
National Training Framework
National Training Information Service
National training record
National Training Reform Agenda
National VET regulator
National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation Program
National Vocational Education and Training Research Program
Nationally recognised program
Nationally recognised training
Nested qualifications
New Apprenticeships
New Apprenticeships Access Program
New Apprenticeships Incentives Program
Nominal hours
Non-endorsed components
Non-formal education
Non-formal learning
Non-nationally recognised training
Non-traditional occupation

S

School based apprenticeship or traineeship
School Based New Apprenticeship
School to Work Program
School-to-work transition
Scope of registration
Senior Secondary Certificate of Education
Short course
Single-sector institutions
Skill
Skill development
Skill ecosystem
Skill formation
Skill obsolescence
Skill recognition
Skill sets
Skill shortage
Skill upgrading
Skills analysis
Skills audit
Skills centre
Skills passport
Skills portfolio
Skills recognition agency
Skills Tasmania
Skills transfer
SkillShare
SkillShare Program
South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre
SPEAR
Standards for VET accredited courses
State and territory registering and course accrediting bodies
State and territory training authorities
State training profile
Statement of attainment
Strategic Cross-Sectoral Data Committee
Structured training
Structured workplace learning
Subject load pass rate
Summative assessment
Sustainability
Sustainable development

T

Tasmanian Qualifications Authority
Technical and further education (TAFE) institute
Tertiary admissions centre
Tertiary education
Tertiary entrance rank
Total VET Activity
Trade course
Traditional apprentice
Trainee
Traineeship
Trainer
Training agreement
Training and assessment strategy
Training contract
Training culture
Training Guarantee Scheme
Training investment
Training market
Training organisation
Training package
Training package skill sets
Training plan
Training products
Training provider
Training Reform Agenda
Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement
Transferable skill
Transition from school-to-work
Transparency of qualifications

      V

Validation
VET delivered to secondary students
VET for secondary school students
VET in Schools
VET provider
VET Quality Framework
VET regulator
Victorian Skills Commission
Vocational and Educational Guidance for Aboriginals Scheme
Vocational competency
Vocational counselling
Vocational education and training
Vocational education and training provider
Vocational graduate certificate
Vocational graduate diploma
Vocational guidance
Vocational learning
Vocational outcome
Vocational placement
Vocational preparation
Vocational qualification
Vocational rehabilitation
Vocational Training Tribunal
Volume of learning
Voucher

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