Monday, June 20, 2022

Australian perspective of vocational education and training (VET - NCVER 'landmark' series

 The VET Development Centre (VDC) based in Victoria, Australia featured and summarised Professor Erica Smith's 'landmark' look into the Australian apprenticeship system

In turn, the NCVER VOCED has collated a VET knowledge bank of the key policies and reports which impinge on Australian VET, which they call 'landmark documents'. A good resource for those wanting to understand the evolution of the Australian VET system. A good way into VOCEDplus  massive database is their 'special collections' site which has links to key topics including key research and policy by region (Australian), programme based collections, organisational based collections, VET/HE pathways, thesis and key conferences.

Other landmark documents include:

historical overviews of the place of VET;  research in the VET sector, overview of the VET workforce; reviewing aspects of skill and knowledge; and training and assessments

A few already somewhat dated and all are contextualised to the Australian VET context. However, they provide good summaries and recommendations and are useful as comparative tools to see how things have shifted (or not) and provide the historical background for understanding the Australian system.


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