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Karmel, Tom; Fieger, Peter – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Completion rates are an obvious performance indicator for the vocational education and training (VET) sector. Previously published figures indicated overall completion rates as low as 27%. One response to this is the argument that there are many students who do not need to complete their qualification as they acquire the skills they need without…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Employment Level, Vocational Education, Wages
Mark, Kevin; Karmel, Tom – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This paper estimates vocational education and training (VET) course-completion rates, in order to fill a gap in performance measures for the VET sector. The technique the authors use is to track all VET course enrolments within a three-year window, centred on the year of interest. Then, using an absorbing Markov chain model for a VET course…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Qualifications, Vocational Education, Models