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The Latest Funded VET Activity Statistics Have Been Released

This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, program, subjects, and training providers in Australia’s government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system. Government-funded is defined as Commonwealth and state or territory government-funded training delivered by contracted training organisations.

Data for the Government-funded students and courses series are received by NCVER in four cumulative submissions:

• January to March, submitted in May
• January to June, submitted in August
• January to September, submitted in November
• January to December, submitted in March.

This allows additional data to be reported and corrections made to previously submitted data.

The data in this publication cover the period of 1 January to 31 March 2022. 

For comparative purposes it examines data for the same period of the previous year.

Highlights:

In the three months to 31 March 2022, 708 450 students were enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. They included:

• 702 445 students enrolled in nationally recognised training
• 19 390 students enrolled in non-nationally recognised training.

Government-funded program enrolments comprised:

• 93.4% in nationally recognised programs
• 4.2% in locally developed programs
• 2.3% in non-nationally recognised programs.

89.4% of program enrolments were in qualifications:

• 82.1% of program enrolments were in training package qualifications
• 7.3% were in accredited qualifications
• 50.3% of qualifications were at certificate III level
• 20.7% of qualifications were at certificate IV level.

Download the full statistical report here.

Date posted Sep 15, 2022