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Direct linkFerrier, Fran; Selby Smith, Chris – Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 2003
Information from the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) indicates that training within New Apprenticeships is more flexible than traditional apprenticeships and traineeships. The ability of employers and employees to select a training provider of their choice, providing that it is registered in their state or territory, is known as…
Descriptors: School Choice, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Smith, Joy Selby; Smith, Chris Selby; Ferrier, Fran – 1996
This working paper examines key policy issues in the implementation of Australia's User Choice policy regarding allocating public funds for vocational education and training (VET). Part 1 explains the process used to obtain stakeholders regarding the User Choice policy, the administrative arrangements required to support it, and issues that must…
Descriptors: Educational Demand, Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Ferrier, Fran; Smith, Chris Selby – 2003
This document focuses on investigations of three main issues of "User Choice," which has been applied to New Apprenticeships since 1998. The issues are as follows: (1) why some firms do not access User Choice when arranging training for their trainees and apprentices; (2) whether the size of the firm has a significant impact on User…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Ferrier, Fran; Smith, Chris Selby – 2001
Data from an Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry survey of approximately 350 employers were reanalyzed to determine the effects of organization size and geographic location on the implementation of User Choice, which provides public funds to training providers chosen by apprentices and trainees. Among the respondents, 41.1% were small and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apprenticeships, Contract Training, Educational Finance
Smith, Joy Selby; Smith, Chris Selby; Ferrier, Fran – 1996
The effectiveness of the "user choice" approach to allocating public funds for training was examined through telephone interviews with 46 employers who were associated with 48 of Australia's 50 User Choice pilot projects (including employers associated with 7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiatives). The employers uniformly…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Attitudes, Educational Finance, Employer Attitudes
Ferrier, Fran; Trood, Clifford; Whittingham, Karen – 2003
Emerging and potential Australian industries were surveyed to identify the skills needed by their current and future workers and to determine how Australia's vocational and training (VET) system can best respond to those skill needs. The study investigated industries emerging from the work of Australia's Co-operative Research Centres program. The…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Smith, Chris Selby; Ferrier, Fran – 2001
Australia introduced User Choice nationally in January 1998 to develop a national training system that is more responsive to clients' needs. User Choice is based on nine principles, including the following: (1) clients can negotiate their publicly funded training needs; (2) User Choice operates in a national training market not limited by state or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Competition, Contract Training, Education Work Relationship
