VET in economically vulnerable regions

The role of VET in lessening the impact of structural economic change is the focus of two current research projects recently commissioned through the National VET Research program targeted funding round. Dr Darryn Snell from RMIT is looking at factors that facilitate or impede cross-occupational skills transfer between declining and growing occupations. The second project, by Professor Victor Callan and Dr Kaye Bowman, Callan Consulting Group, will focus on factors that impact upon the successful skills transfer, re-skilling or training of older workers being affected by structural economic change in the manufacturing industry. Both projects will be completed in 2015.

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