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Australian Government Department of Education, 2025
The 2024 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) National Workforce Census (NWC) was commissioned by the Department of Education and aims to improve the quality of information used in developing and measuring early childhood policy and programs. This report gives a brief overview of some of the key data on ECEC services and workers, including:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Early Childhood Teachers
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
This publication presents information on employers' use and views of the vocational education and training (VET) system. The findings relate to the various ways in which Australian employers use accredited and unaccredited training to meet their skill needs and their satisfaction with the training. Australian employers can engage with accredited…
Descriptors: Employers, Employer Attitudes, Vocational Education, Job Training
Moschion, Julie; Polidano, Cain; Fischer, Daniel – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
The aim of this analysis of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is to compare labour market outcomes between individuals who have Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualifications only, VET and Higher Education (HE) qualifications and HE qualifications only, but who work in the same occupations. In…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Career Pathways, Labor Market
Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report is the first component of a larger study investigating training practices relating to traditional trade apprenticeships, with a view to developing policy directions on how to maintain their relevance and usefulness. This first phase of the study explores data on trends in training activity and completions, provides details on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Educational Trends, Incentives
Beddie, Francesca; Hargreaves, Jo; Atkinson, Georgina – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
At the request of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Industry Skills Council (ISC), and the Skills Senior Officials Network (SSON), a National Training Product Reform Group, comprising representatives from all of the jurisdictions, considered the longer-term reform of training products. This exercise, conducted during 2016, aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Industry, Educational Change
O'Dwyer, Lisel; White, Ian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
Changes in the qualification profiles of workers is one indicator of changes in the supply and demand for education and training. Using Australian Census data on highest qualification held (which may understate the incidence of Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualifications if they were obtained after completing higher education) this…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Occupations, Labor Force
Palmer, Bryan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
In recent years, there has been substantial interest in micro-credentials in post-secondary education. In November 2019, Australian skills ministers agreed to fast-track work exploring micro-credentials in the national vocational education and training (VET) system, with the aim of ensuring that the system responds more effectively to the needs of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Minicourses
White, Ian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has created uncertain economic conditions due to restrictions put in place to control the spread of the virus. These restrictions have significantly impacted the economic activities of businesses and industries, and in turn the demand for labour. As the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia continues, it is…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This publication presents information on employers' use and views of the vocational education and training (VET) system. The findings relate to the various ways in which Australian employers use the VET system and unaccredited training to meet their skill needs, and their satisfaction with these methods of training. Australian employers can engage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Employer Attitudes, Use Studies
Making "Good" Choices: The Impact of Entitlement Models on Upskilling Later in Life. Research Report
Polidano, Cain; van de Ven, Justin; Voitchovsky, Sarah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
Tailoring education policy to deliver the skills needed by modern labour markets is complicated by the rapid pace of technological change. These complications are amplified when the associated risks of technological redundancy and the lengthening working lifetimes are taken into account. At the heart of the challenge for policy-makers is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Skill Development, Educational Change
Healy, Joshua; Mavromaras, Kostas; Sloane, Peter J. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Although skill shortages are often portrayed as a significant problem for the Australian economy, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes and consequences. It is difficult to find robust evidence about where skill shortages occur, why they occur, what businesses try to do about them and whether their responses are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics, Longitudinal Studies, Data Analysis
Karmel, Tom; Lim, Patrick; Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
Shortages in the trades are again becoming a prominent issue as Australia emerges from the Global Financial Crisis. The existence of shortages puts the immediate focus on the apparent inability of the training system to supply sufficient skilled tradespersons, but shortages in an occupation are as much related to the rate at which individuals…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Skilled Occupations, Professional Occupations, Occupational Mobility
Lu, Tham – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
Many students do not complete full qualifications in the vocational education and training (VET) system because their intention is to obtain only the particular skills they require. This can be achieved through the acquisition of skill sets; these enable flexibility in training to quickly respond to changes in the labour market. Skill sets may…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Skill Development, Employment Qualifications
Karmel, Tom; Misko, Josie; Blomberg, Davinia; Bednarz, Alice; Atkinson, Georgina – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014
In recent years, the level of participation and attainment by Indigenous Australians in education and training has improved, yet substantial gaps still exist between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Education has to be a key focus if the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous employment rates is to be closed. This report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Job Training, Indigenous Populations
Kankaraš, Miloš; Montt, Guillermo; Paccagnella, Marco; Quintini, Glenda; Thorn, William – OECD Publishing, 2016
In the wake of the technological revolution that began in the last decades of the 20th century, labour market demand for information-processing and other high-level cognitive and interpersonal skills is growing substantially. The "Survey of Adult Skills," a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Surveys, International Assessment, Literacy