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Griffin, Tabatha – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
"Workforce-Ready: Challenges and Opportunities for VET" is the theme for the 29th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills' from July 7-10, 2020. The phrase 'workforce-ready' might bring several different scenarios to mind. It may conjure an image of graduates making their first foray into the world of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Job Skills, Unemployment
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This publication presents completion and attrition rates for apprentices and trainees using three different methodologies: (1) contract completion and attrition rates: based on the outcomes of contracts of training; (2) individual completion rates: based on contract completion rates and adjusted for factors representing average recommencements by…
Descriptors: Persistence, Student Attrition, Occupations, Apprenticeships
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Levy, Stuart; Briede, Michelle; Frost-Camilleri, Liam – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
This research explored how engineering apprentices at an Australian TAFE institution perceive their supported acquisition of literacy and numeracy skills. Using a mixed methods approach, 56 apprentices completed questionnaires with nine participating in subsequent interviews. The study identified apprentices' perceived ability levels in reading,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Smith, Erica – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
This paper examines responses to the trend for increasing participation in tertiary education, linking developments in higher education with those in apprenticeship systems, in Australia and the United Kingdom. In both sectors, expansion proceeded for several decades, but was robustly criticised in both countries. The expansion of access to these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
Circelli, Michelle; Siekmann, Gitta – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
Vocational education and training (VET) in schools promises a seamless entry into apprenticeships, skilled work and further education options, with many best practice examples of this type of training delivered in schools identified around Australia. This synthesis identifies insights emerging from existing research on the delivery of VET to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
Misko, 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
Dikhtyar, Oksana; Helsinger, Abigail; Cummins, Phyllis; Hicks, Nytasia – Grantee Submission, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression. Although countries responded quickly to support displaced workers with assistance packages and funding for education and training, additional measures might be needed. Each country's economic recovery will most likely depend on how well its workforce is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Impact
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Saetre, Jon Helge; Zhukov, Katie – Music Education Research, 2021
This article reports on a pilot project exploring the viability of a teaching-through-playing approach in chamber music instruction in higher music education. Literature suggests that teaching traditions such as the one-to-one setting need renewal, and socio-cultural theories of learning propose that collaboration and participation are a way…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
This publication provides a summary of the outcomes of apprentices and trainees who completed an apprenticeship or traineeship during 2020. The figures are derived from the 2021 National Student Outcomes Survey. Information is presented on apprentices' and trainees' reasons for training, their employment outcomes, further study outcomes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Apprenticeships, Trainees
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
This publication presents information on VET in Schools, the vocational education and training (VET) undertaken by school students as part of their senior secondary certificate of education. The VET in Schools arrangement offers two main options: students can undertake school-based apprenticeships and traineeships; or they can take other VET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Apprenticeships
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
This support document contains material that supports the research report, "Higher Apprenticeships in Australia: What Are We Talking About?". It provides more detail on two elements of the research: (1) An overview of publicly available information on international models of higher apprenticeships, both established and under development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Higher Education, Vocational Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
"Apprentice and Trainee Outcomes 2021" provides a summary of the outcomes of apprentices and trainees who completed an apprenticeship or traineeship during 2020, with the data collected in mid-2021. The figures are derived from apprentices' and trainees' responses to the National Student Outcomes Survey (SOS), which is an annual survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Trainees, National Surveys
Osborne, Kristen; Serich, Cameron – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report explores, from a variety of perspectives, the volume and nature of recognition of prior learning (RPL) currently granted in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system. Of particular interest are the areas where most RPL is taking place, including the qualifications being completed with high rates of RPL. The report…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends
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Hall, Lisa – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2021
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything about the world we live in, in 2020. It is having obvious impacts on the way we teach and the way we learn. In Victoria, Monash Rural Health Bendigo is one of the few places that has managed to continue clinical health education and clinical placements throughout 2020--albeit in modified…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Education, Medical Education
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Mangan, John; Trendle, Bernard – Education Economics, 2017
There is widespread public concern at the high drop-out rates among apprentices in Australia. This paper argues that this concern may be misplaced as it fails to allow for eventual completion over time. We argue that a methodology that concentrates on a single training episode only is less appropriate to evaluating training outcomes in a regime…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attrition, School Holding Power, Apprenticeships
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