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Amy Cosby; Nicole McDonald; Kristen Lovric – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: To identify a skilled micro-credentialled training pathway for agricultural careers. Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey consisting of open ended and Likert-type ratings questions regarding workforce skills requirements, training priorities and training delivery preferences was administered with 17 agricultural business managers and…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Seasonal Laborers
Joanne Waugh – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
"VET partnerships powering a dynamic workforce" is the theme for the 33rd National Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research Conference 'No Frills.' In keeping with the conference's theme, this discussion paper focuses on Australia's workforce demands and the importance of equipping the workforce with necessary skills through…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Partnerships in Education, Labor Force Development, Labor Demands
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Voss, Richard; Lynch, Julianne; Herbert, Sandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Within vocational education and training (VET), mathematics learning is often complicated by students' problematic prior mathematics education experiences and associated low confidence and limited prerequisite knowledge. Teachers have insights into students' mathematics learning needs and appropriate curriculum and assessment responses, but their…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education
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Denise De Souza; Zelinna Pablo; Michael Shevlin; Maria Theresa von Fürstenberg; Jennifer Banks; Debashis Sarker; Alejandra Rios Urzua; Donatella Camedda; Des Aston – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2024
Background: Research on post-secondary training for individuals with intellectual disabilities has generally focused on programs, with little consideration of the structures and mechanisms that give rise to them. This article adopts a critical realist perspective to comparatively analyse and theorise about the contextual structures contributing to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Inclusion
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
This publication presents information on employers' use and views of the vocational education and training (VET) system. The findings relate to the various ways in which Australian employers use accredited and unaccredited training to meet their skill needs and their satisfaction with the training. Australian employers can engage with accredited…
Descriptors: Employers, Employer Attitudes, Vocational Education, Job Training
Bowman, Kaye; Callan, Victor J. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
Australia's economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic depends on the ability of employers to fill the skills shortages resulting from lower migration and upturns in economic prosperity associated with ongoing technological change. The national vocational education and training (VET) system is best placed to support employers to meet these skill…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Vocational Education, Employers
Callan, Victor J.; Bowman, Kaye – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
This support document contains a literature review for the project entitled: "Engaging More Employers in Nationally Recognised Training to Develop Their Workforce. Research Report" (ED616445). The aim of the overall research project is to identify strategies to improve employer uptake of nationally recognised training in the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Vocational Education, Employers
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Sharma, Amrita – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
Employability is a construct that includes soft and hard skills to prepare a person to gain employment, progress in it and sustain a career. The employability discourse, in the context of linking education with skills development, has gained increased attention globally. However, engagement with this agenda differs across countries, as it depends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Educational History
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Laundon, Melinda; McDonald, Paula; Greentree, Jacqueline – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This paper explores how education and training systems can support a digitally-enabled workforce for the Australian manufacturing sector. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on interviews with 17 sector-level manufacturing stakeholders from industry, government and education/training organisations. Semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Attitudes
Callan, Victor J.; Bowman, Kaye – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Engaging More Employers in Nationally Recognised Training to Develop Their Workforce. Research Report" (ED616445) and is an added resource for further information. This support document reports on the outcomes of the interviews with representatives of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Vocational Education, Employers
Bridget Wibrow; Michelle Hall; Tabatha Griffin – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
This research explores the many faces of course completion and non-completion in vocational education and training. By tracking student enrolments via the unique student identifier in the National VET Provider Collection, we gain a greater understanding of how individuals mix and match training types and their movement through VET, enabling…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Enrollment Rate
Michelle Hall – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
This document provides technical detail and supporting data for the research findings discussed in 'The student journey in VET: the many faces of completion and non-completion'. The analysis in this technical paper explores: (1) an approach to identifying VET subject enrolment activity that serves a compliance or regulatory purpose; (2)…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Enrollment Rate
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Ceric, Arnela; Small, Felicity; Morrison, Mark – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Indigenous people tend to pursue education in their mature age. Indigenous employees thus, may need additional training opportunities in the workplace. As their preferred way of learning are different from other employees, training programmes for Indigenous employees should be designed and delivered with their preferred ways of learning in mind.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Employees, Employee Attitudes, Job Training
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Mollie Dollinger; Juuso Henrik Nieminen; Rachel Finneran – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Universities can prepare students for work, and universities can educate increasingly diverse student cohorts, but can they do both concurrently? This question of whether universities can offer equitable and inclusive careers education is increasingly under scrutiny. In this study, we address the largely under-theorised area of work-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Job Placement, Students with Disabilities
Wibrow, Bridget; Waugh, Joanne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
Reducing the number of vocational qualifications available is a current or recent priority area of many VET [vocational education and training] systems internationally, but what is the best way to achieve this and is there anything that needs to be considered? Focusing on cases studies on New Zealand, England, Finland and the Netherlands, this…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Competence, Job Skills
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