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ASQA: Video - The Benefits of Validation

Did you know there are four ways effective assessment validation could help your provider? Watch this short video which outlines the four in greater detail and explains what they might mean for you and your students.

Australian Network on Disability: Designing an accessible workplace

Employers are obliged to provide ‘dignified access’ to workplaces under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and Disability (Access to Premises – Buildings) Standards 2010.

NCVER: VET for secondary school students: a research synthesis (2022)

This paper focuses on reasons for choosing and participating in VET programs delivered in schools; models of delivery; quality of delivery; and outcomes, both short and medium-term, from these programs. Current knowledge gaps are identified with areas for further research suggested.

TAFETalks: Webinar - The future of international education in Australia: what opportunities for TAFEs? (2022)

Webinar - Australian Government representatives and leading TAFE experts speak about opportunities in the international space based on the Australian Strategy for International Education 2021-2030 .

VET and the changing labour market (2023)

An analysis of the changing labour market and the impact on the VET sector.

Degree Inflation: Undermining the value of higher education (2023)

The past 20 years have seen explosive growth in universities. At the same time, vocational education and training (VET) faced a tsunami of financial challenges and poorly implemented policies. As a result, VET is now stigmatised as a second-class education option, and employers demand university credentials for jobs that formerly did not require them.

Australian Government: Inquiry into national security risks affecting the Australian higher education and research sector (2022)

This inquiry was broad in its scope as it discussed all national security risks present in the higher education and research sector.

Pressure to attend university: beyond narrow conceptions of pathways to a “good life” (2023)

This paper examines the post-school transitions of 22 Australian school leavers who were interviewed while at school between 2012 and 2017 and then again 1–5 years post-school.

Beyond the standard: motivators of high-performing RTOs (2023)

This research builds upon the work of Guthrie and Waters (2021, 2022) to interrogate what motivates such RTOs to pursue high performance. High performing RTOs were interviewed to explore their understanding of high performance and their motivations for pursuing high performance. This research adds a new perspective to discussions on RTO performance and highlights the varying ways in which providers self-assess performance.

Webinar Recording: A Guide to Marking Guides!

Recorded on the 14/10/2020, this 90-minute, highly interactive session, streams our VET Expert (John Dwyer) directly to you! Unpack the most critical components of marking guides and their importance as part of an assessment tool in this session.

SpringerOpen: Mature Australian VET markets: a data-driven case study of public policy implementation (2022)

This research makes novel use of large nationally consistent regulatory and enrolment data sets to provide evidence of successful public policy implementation that is approaching the end of the market life cycle. It is argued that policy success is not permanent and should be revisited in light of contemporary economic alternatives to guide future VET policy making.

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