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Download full textLamb, Stephen; Maire, Quentin; Walstab, Anne; Newman, Graeme; Doecke, Esther; Davies, Merryn – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
Improving the educational outcomes of the various disadvantaged groups, such as Indigenous Australians, people with a disability, learners with low prior educational attainment and individuals from non-English speaking backgrounds, is a focus of many government policy initiatives centred on social inclusion. This research takes a regional approach…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Outcomes of Education, Indigenous Populations, Educational Attainment
McVicar, Duncan; Tabasso, Domenico – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
Increasing educational attainment is generally tied to better employment outcomes. The vocational education and training (VET) sector is often used as an entry point into post-compulsory education for individuals who have experienced disadvantage in their lives. But does increasing participation in VET by disadvantaged individuals necessarily lead…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedWilks, Judith; Wilson, Katie – Australian Universities' Review, 2015
This paper brings together recent statistics relating to the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in higher education. A number of key statistical realities relating to their enrolment into, retention during, and completion of, their university courses are depicted. Foremost among these realities is that despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Student Characteristics
Griffin, Tabatha; Beddie, Francesca – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
This publication is dedicated to Chris Selby Smith, who was posthumously awarded the 2009 National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) VET Researcher of the Year Award. Selby Smith's body of work displayed many aspects of the excellence for which the award is offered. His experience working in both academia and the public service gave…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Vocational Education, Educational Research, Access to Education
Karmel, Tom; Nguyen, Nhi – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
In 2005, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) produced a statistical compendium examining vocational education and training (VET) students with a disability as a whole group; it also compared different disability groups, focusing on their participation levels, achievements and outcomes from VET in 2003 (Cavallaro et al.…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Mental Disorders, Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Direct linkShah, Chandra; Burke, Gerald – Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 2003
In the higher education sector most students enrol in a course with the intention of obtaining a qualification. In the vocational education and training (VET) sector many students tend to complete only some units of competencies or modules of a course. This study analysed the progress until 2000 of students who commenced a TAFE course in 1997, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Vocational Education
