Australia’s major survey of students for rating the nation’s vocational education and training (VET) system is underway. Around 310 000 students are being asked about their recent experience at a TAFE institute, private training provider, or adult and community education provider.
Managed by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the annual Student Outcomes Survey provides information on VET students’ employment outcomes and satisfaction with their training.
Dr Craig Fowler, Managing Director, NCVER, said that it’s important for students to have their say because the survey provides vital feedback that helps inform and improve the sector for future students.

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This publication presents preliminary figures for the number of students, subject enrolments, hours of delivery and full-year training equivalents relating to Australia’s government-funded (public) vocational education and training (VET) system for 2014. As the figures are preliminary, they may be subject to change as further processing of the data is undertaken. Final data, with more detail and a wider range of variables, are expected to be released in late June 2015. This publication supersedes the Australian vocational education and training statistics: students and courses series.

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This paper is about international approaches to the development, approval and quality assurance of qualifications. Country-specific adaptations of some common themes are observed, including aims to improve the transparency and portability of qualifications, consultations with a broad range of stakeholder groups in developing qualifications and outcomes-based quality assurance processes. Governments in countries experiencing proliferation of qualifications are implementing time-based low or zero uptake review policies to periodically remove or retire qualifications no longer of relevance.

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