Vocational Education and Training Workforce
Research report
This research report was released on 5 May 2011.
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- More about the Education and Training Workforce study
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 379 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents, Acknowledgment, Abbreviations and explanations and Glossary - Overview - including key points (PDF - 245 Kb)
- Findings and Recommendations (PDF - 213 Kb)
- Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 166 Kb)
1.1 What the Commission has been asked to do
1.2 VET and human capital
1.3 Why focus on the VET workforce?
1.4 Conduct of the study
1.5 Other research initiatives in this area
1.6 Structure of the report - Chapter 2 The VET sector (PDF - 237 Kb)
2.1 Origins of the VET sector
2.2 Defining the sector
2.3 The VET sector today - Chapter 3 Profiling the VET workforce (PDF - 266 Kb)
3.1 Describing the different types of VET workers
3.2 Size of the VET workforce
3.3 Characteristics of the VET workforce
3.4 Career pathways of VET workers - Chapter 4 Government involvement in the VET sector (PDF - 321 Kb)
4.1 Public and private benefits of education and training
4.2 Rationales for government intervention in VET
4.3 Forms of government intervention in VET
4.4 The increasing role of market forces in the VET sector - Chapter 5 What do students and employers expect from VET? (PDF - 393 Kb)
5.1 Student expectations and experiences of VET
5.2 Employer expectations and experiences of VET - Chapter 6 Implications of a changing environment for the VET workforce (PDF - 280 Kb)
6.1 Demographic trends
6.2 Economic changes
6.3 Skills policy agenda
6.4 Changing VET systems and structures - Chapter 7 Workforce planning and data (PDF - 239 Kb)
7.1 Identifying the need for workers through workforce planning
7.2 Improving the workforce database - Chapter 8 Ensuring workforce capacity and efficiency (PDF - 351 Kb)
8.1 Labour productivity is important for capacity
8.2 Factors affecting attraction and retention
8.3 Attracting specific groups
8.4 Reforms to enhance capacity and efficiency - Chapter 9 Workforce capability - background and evidence (PDF - 369 Kb)
9.1 What capabilities does the workforce require?
9.2 Institutional settings relevant to capability
9.3 Evidence on the impact of teachers' observable characteristics on student achievement
9.4 Workforce capability gaps?
9.5 Industry currency - Chapter 10 Improving the workforce's capability (PDF - 381 Kb)
10.1 Minimum qualifications for trainers and assessors
10.2 Professional development beyond the Certificate IV
10.3 Potential national approaches to VET workforce development - Chapter 11 The Commission's proposals (PDF - 390 Kb)
11.1 What can be expected from the proposals?
11.2 Implementation timeframes - Appendix A List of submissions, visits, consultations and roundtables (PDF - 147 Kb)
- Appendix B Detailed data on VET activity (PDF - 259 Kb)
B.1 Dimensions of training output
B.2 Diversity of the sector
Attachment - Estimates of total VET activity from SET - Appendix C Detailed VET workforce statistics (PDF - 313 Kb)
C.1 Detailed profile of the VET workforce
C.2 Career pathways in VET
C.3 Recruitment and salaries
C.4 Data sources
C.5 Estimation of the size of the VET workforce - Appendix D System performance (PDF - 285 Kb)
D.1 Effectiveness of the VET system
D.2 Productivity of the VET system - Appendix E Detailed institutional and government arrangements (PDF - 218 Kb)
E.1 Governance and regulation
E.2 State and Territory approaches to VET - Appendix F Overseas and other models (PDF - 262 Kb)
F.1 Introduction
F.2 Cross country evidence from the European Union and the OECD
F.3 VET workforce in the United Kingdom
F.4 VET workforce in the United States
F.5 VET workforce in Germany
F.6 VET in New Zealand
F.7 School teachers in Australia
F.8 Higher education lecturers in Australia
F.9 Accountants in Australia - References (PDF - 361 Kb)
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