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Direct linkRob Strathdee – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Concerns about the poor outcomes from school-based vocational education, which is heavily concentrated in schools serving disadvantaged communities, has led the State Government of Victoria, Australia, to implement major reforms, including abolishing the Victoria Certificate of Applied Learning. Instead, from 2023, learning in vocational education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change, Certification
Pearce, Damien – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
Recent research has linked the development of self-directed learning of building and construction apprentices to the quality of relationship between the apprentice and their sponsor. This relationship was found to be critical for the apprentice to develop the capacity for self-directed learning. The sponsor as a more confident or experienced other…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Workplace Learning
Taylor, Anthea – Youth & Society, 2005
Although new understandings of career decision-making processes are emerging, the prevailing rhetoric points to careers imbued with new worker attributes--flexibility, job mobility, and constant upskilling. This discussion of the pragmatics of youth career decision making draws on a series of transition studies with Western Australian youths, many…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Occupational Mobility, Decision Making, Masculinity
Download full textBrinkworth, B. J.; Eckersall, K. E. – 1985
A project was conducted to design and pilot a scheme for monitoring trade/industry/commerce technological changes and reporting them to Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers and authorities. A matrix of information categories was used to facilitate the collection and storage of information relative to technological advancements in the…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Bulletins, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
Carey, Cristene, Ed. – 1991
This document contains summaries of five workshops, each with several speakers, held at a conference on competency-based training (CBT) in Australia. The following are included in Session 1, Developing and Delivering CBT Programs: "Developing and Delivering CBT Programs--Opening Speech" (Steve McDonald); "Competency Standards and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Competence, Competency Based Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2001
As of February 2001, 285,400 people were employed in Australia's construction trades workforce and an additional 169,600 people were employed in the main nontrade on-site construction occupations. After a period of decline in the mid-1990s, employment in Australia's construction trades increased by 5% in the 2 years ending in February 2001.…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
