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Thu D. Pham; Levon E. Blue; Angela Baeza; Peter J. Anderson; Congcong Xing; Melanie Saward – Student Success, 2025
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students enrolled at universities continues to increase; however, completion rates have not. In this study, we sought to understand what contributes to university completion rates by Indigenous Australian students. We employed a mixed-method approach, utilising the higher education success factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, College Students
Ong, Adrian; Circelli, Michelle – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
People participate in vocational education and training (VET) for a variety of reasons and at different stages of their life. Some undertake VET to gain the vocational skills necessary to enter the labour market for the first time, while others enter in order to upgrade existing skills, learn new ones, or simply for personal interest. Successful…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Performance Factors
Karmel, Tom; Fieger, Peter – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Completion rates are an obvious performance indicator for the vocational education and training (VET) sector. Previously published figures indicated overall completion rates as low as 27%. One response to this is the argument that there are many students who do not need to complete their qualification as they acquire the skills they need without…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Employment Level, Vocational Education, Wages
Mark, Kevin; Karmel, Tom – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This paper estimates vocational education and training (VET) course-completion rates, in order to fill a gap in performance measures for the VET sector. The technique the authors use is to track all VET course enrolments within a three-year window, centred on the year of interest. Then, using an absorbing Markov chain model for a VET course…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Qualifications, Vocational Education, Models
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
"Research Messages 2014" is a collection of summaries of research published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in 2014 in the context of changing economic, industrial, social and education conditions, organised under the following broad categories: (1) Productivity: to sustain and build Australia's human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Postsecondary 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
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education