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Direct linkDesmarchelier, Renee; Cary, Lisa J. – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
The current historic COVID-19 Pandemic moment has thrown into sharp relief the need for flexible and rigorous higher education that meets upskilling and reskilling needs of global workforces. Discussions of micro-credentialing predate the Pandemic but have received increased focus as potentially assisting in addressing perceived skills gaps.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Credentials, Foreign Countries
Bowles, Marcus; Brooks, Benjamin; Curnin, Steven; Anderson, Helen – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2023
Purpose: The value of transverse skills, including human capabilities, has been acknowledged for a significant period of time by major organisations such as UNESCO and the World Economic Forum. This paper reports on the application of microcredentials linked to the Human Capability Framework in a major telecommunications organisation that has a…
Descriptors: Credentials, Telecommunications, Organizations (Groups), Labor Force
Download full textO'Dwyer, Lisel; White, Ian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
Changes in the qualification profiles of workers is one indicator of changes in the supply and demand for education and training. Using Australian Census data on highest qualification held (which may understate the incidence of Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualifications if they were obtained after completing higher education) this…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Occupations, Labor Force
Polesel, John; Keating, Jack – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Located differentially (and to its detriment) within a status hierarchy of knowledge, vocational education has been called upon to satisfy an increasing range of political and social needs, including meeting the needs of industry and government and catering for increasing pupil diversity. Faced with stubbornly immobile rates of school completion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
Future workforce planning in private and public enterprise requires reliable information on which projections are made. Currently limited information exists about vocational education and training (VET) professionals. This report consolidates two national studies on the TAFE workforce, and on VET professionals in private and public registered…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Credentials, Vocational Education, Profiles
Peer reviewedLedgar, Jennifer – Higher Education in Europe, 1996
Discussion of the Australian education system gives a brief overview of the entire system, then details key developments in higher education and in the vocational education sector, including aspects of funding, international cooperation, reform and expansion, quality assurance, delivery systems, apprenticeship programs, responsiveness to the labor…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Role
Knight, Anne, Comp.; Nestor, Marianne, Comp. – 2000
This document is a glossary of more than 750 terms, abbreviations, and acronyms that are likely to be found in recent Australian vocational education and training (VET) research and policy documents. The glossary also includes selected commonly found international terms. In those cases where a term has a broader general meaning, the definition…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Advisory Committees, Credentials, Definitions
