The 2019 National Student Outcomes Survey, Australia’s largest survey of vocational education and training (VET) students, is set to commence tomorrow. This year over 800 000 people who completed training in 2018 will be contacted, including international onshore VET graduates, to collect information on employment outcomes, training satisfaction, and the benefits and relevance of their training.

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The re-elected Coalition government has some serious work to do with its state counterparts to get Australia’s tertiary education sector back on track. On current trends, participation rates in tertiary education – which includes university and vocational education training (VET) – will fall over the next decade.

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The vocational education and training (VET) sector is integral to Australia’s economy and the businesses and workforce that underpin it. The sector provides skills to 4.2 million students at 4,200 registered training providers.

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The Apprentice Employment Network NSW & ACT will be hosting the 2019 Skills Conference at Dockside Darling Harbour on the 13 June. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Driving innovation in Vocational Education and Training’ exploring what people in the VET industry can do to address skills shortages.

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The Department of Industry has released free workshops for supervisors to learn how to supervise their apprentices or trainees and to understand their role as a supervisor.

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Join us as we discuss the important role small VET providers play in offering diversity, equity and specialised training services across the Australian VET sector. Small providers contribute to VET system diversity via the niche qualifications they offer, which are often fee-for-service. If you’d like to learn more before the webinar, download the research or view the infographic now.

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This webinar will introduce you to the Career Interest Explorer and Work Type Explorer resources.  We will step you through the full functionality of the Explorers including the complementary activity sheets. This will include demonstrating the Job and Training Descriptions and Industry Information pages.

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The AVETRA conference brings together VET researchers and those interested in using research to inform policy and practice, to discuss and debate vital matters. This year’s theme is No future for old VET: researching for the training system/s of tomorrow. The AVETRA Conference will be held on the 17-18 June 2019 at the Western Sydney University, Parramatta.

The No Frills conference is where researchers, practitioners, providers, government and industry representatives come together and share information on Australia’s VET sector. The conference will be held from Wednesday 10th July to Friday 12th July 2019 in Adelaide.

The 2019 National VET Conference will be delivered over two days on the 12-13 September at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC)  through an exciting range of presentations, providing attendees with the opportunity to engage in a wide variety of plenary and elective sessions. Pre-conference Master Classes will be held on Wednesday 11 September.