VET News

Government Funded VET Students and Courses

The latest Australian vocational education and training statistics show:

In the three months ending 31 March 2023, 753 875 students were enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. They included:

• 739 680 students enrolled in nationally recognised training
• 25 205 students enrolled in non-nationally recognised training.

There were 821 765 government-funded program enrolments in Australia comprised of:

• 94.6% in nationally recognised programs - 90.5% were in qualifications: 82.5% in training package qualifications and 8.0% in accredited qualifications and 4.0% were in training package skill sets and accredited courses
• 3.5% in locally developed programs
• 1.9% in non-nationally recognised programs.

In the three months ending 31 March 2023, there were 744 010 government-funded nationally recognised qualification enrolments in Australia. The most popular level of education was Certificate III (373 585 or 50.2%), followed by Certificate IV (159 515 or 21.4%).

For more stats from NCVER you can download the published results here.

Date posted Oct 5, 2023