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Download full textMisko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report is the first component of a larger study investigating training practices relating to traditional trade apprenticeships, with a view to developing policy directions on how to maintain their relevance and usefulness. This first phase of the study explores data on trends in training activity and completions, provides details on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Educational Trends, Incentives
Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This document was produced by the author based on her research for the report "Responding to Changing Skill Demands: Training Packages and Accredited Courses", and is an added resource for further information. "Responding to Changing Skill Demands: Training Packages and Accredited Courses" looks at whether vocational education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Change, Accreditation (Institutions), Courses
Peer reviewedNickson, Dennis; Warhurst, Chris; Cullen, Anne Marie; Watt, Allan – Journal of Education and Work, 2003
Documents the growth in aesthetic service occupations and issues regarding employability: interpersonal skills, training, and social exclusion of those deemed unsuitable for "style" labor. Examines a Scottish training program that raises concerns about social control but may improve the employability of long-term unemployed persons.…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence
Dumbrell, Tom – 1998
Australia's personal and other services industry is the sixth smallest of the 17 industry divisions in numbers employed. The industry, a collection of quite diverse businesses and services in the public and private sectors, has three subdivisions: personal services, other services, and private households employing staff. The employment level has…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Clergy, Clerical Workers, Cosmetology
Freeland, Brett – 2000
New apprenticeships were introduced to Australia in January 1998 to provide practical training opportunities to a wider range of people than the traditional trade-based apprenticeship system did. The effect of the new apprenticeship initiative on the type of employment-based training being undertaken in Australia was studied by analyzing data from…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Comparative Analysis, Definitions
Curtin, Penelope, Ed. – 1998
This book contains 31 papers from a conference on future training issues in Australia's industries. The following papers are included: "Training Development in Australia" (Chris Ellison); "Meeting National and Employer Training Requirements" (Mark Paterson); "Meeting Employee Training Requirements" (Bill Mansfield);…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agriculture, Building Trades, Case Studies
