Vocational Education and Training

Skills and training minister Brendan O’Connor has unveiled a new integrity unit to go after providers who rort the VET system. 

Listening, collaboration and onsite training deliver relevant, meaningful results, says National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Overall, in the childcare, education and training sector, the government spent $92.1 billion in the past financial year.

The Victorian government has established a new body aiming to help individuals begin their career or further develop their skills by connecting apprentices and trainees with job opportunities.

Service NSW will soon begin trialling an initiative that connects people to tailored career advice regardless of their job, experience or education, the state government announced on Wednesday. The establishment of the new service, Careers NSW, has been recommended in the soon-to-be-released review of the NSW vocational education and training sector, led by David Gonski […]

A new national skills agreement is needed to better hold governments to account while ensuring Australia’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system can deliver a more productive workforce, the Productivity Commission has proposed. In a review of the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development (NASWD), released on Thursday, the commission found that the NASWD’s […]

Australian Skills Quality Authority chief commissioner Saxon Rice has been appointed chief executive officer as part of governance changes to the regulator.

Difficulties in recruitment for STEM jobs suggest a looming national shortage of qualifications and technical skills. Low female aspiration for, and participation in, STEM education and careers compound this problem.

Adam Boyton has officially been appointed as the inaugural national skills commissioner, for a five-year term.

The $1 billion JobTrainer program will require the state and territory governments to collectively match the government’s commitment.

A review into the national regulator for the vocational education and training sector has begun following a push from private-sector VET companies.

The new head of the trades industry regulator has reached out to the regulated following the departure of former boss Mark Paterson. Australian Skills Quality Authority Acting Chief Commissioner and CEO Saxon Rice has said she wants to maintain a “strong and productive relationship” with the Vocational Education and Training sector. “This relationship should be […]

The Australian Skills Quality Authority has released a new regulatory strategy to address systemic risks to the vocational education and training (VET) sector. The national regulatory agency’s latest strategy has been designed to inform Registered Training Organisations and the broader VET community of the risks that will receive greater regulatory focus.

Australia’s tertiary education sector needs “urgent” reform as the participation rate of young Australians declines, a new report from the Mitchell Institute has warned.