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Government-funded Students and Courses Data is Released

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) have released a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects and training providers in Australia's government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system (defined as Commonwealth and state/territory government funded training).

The data in this publication covers the period of 1 January to 30 September 2020. 

For comparative purposes, it also examines this data against previously submitted data for the 1 January to 30 September 2016 to 2019 period.

In the first nine months to 30 September 2020, 1 056 300 students were enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET).  They included:

• 1 032 000 students enrolled in nationally recognised training
• 59 300 students enrolled in non-nationally recognised training.

Government-funded program enrolments comprised:

• 82.9% in nationally recognised programs
• 13.5% in locally developed programs
• 3.7% in non-nationally recognised programs.

78.8% of program enrolments were in qualifications:

• 71.7% of program enrolments were in training package qualifications
• 7.1% were in accredited qualifications
• 47.6% of qualifications were at certificate III level
• 19.2% of qualifications were at certificate IV level.

Download the full report here.

Date posted Mar 11, 2021