Family Violence Awareness Initiatives
Family Violence TAFE Operational Group Chisholm has been undertaking pilots in family violence response and primary prevention. As part of the pilots Chisholm is establishing a Family Violence TAFE Operational Group. This group’s purpose is to share … Read More
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Tasmania talks post COVID Recovery
The Tasmanian election is done and dusted, so what will this mean for TAFE and the broader VET sector there? That’s not clear yet, but the Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council (PERSAC) has made a number of wide-ranging … Read More
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How risk can be effectively managed according to ASQA
This recent paper from ASQA, released in April, sets out the Regulatory Risk Framework it is using to manage both sector and provider risk. As ASQA points out: “effective, integrated management of risk is critical to the successful delivery [of … Read More
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What’s in the 2021-22 Commonwealth budget for VET?
This big-spending budget has some news for the VET and higher education sectors. For Higher Ed there is a focus on skilling and training given our closed borders, minimal skilled migration and some labour shortages. This means training those that … Read More
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Do you have your assessments covered?
As Semester 1 of the VDC Professional Learning Program draws to a close, don’t miss out on these upcoming assessment essentials in June. These webinars will delve into RPL, candidate experience and authentic assessment, and also assessment methods … Read More
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AiG calls for urgent change in skills formation and development practices
This is what a new paper from the Australian industry Group (AiG) is calling for in: “Skills urgency - Transforming Australia’s workplaces.” They also see it as a ‘thought starter’. Amongst other things it proposes that “skills development needs a … Read More
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REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference
Registrations are now open for the 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference at the popular RACV Torquay Resort on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. The VDC has provided this leading an annual teaching and learning conference for the past 14 years … Read More
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Beware educational cargo cults!
In late 2018, John Hattie and Arran Hamilton published a ‘White paper’ entitled “Education cargo cults must die”. An intriguing title; but what’s its message? What are the cargo cults? Hattie and Hamilton suggest that: "Cargo cults develop when … Read More
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Good practice in online delivery
In the last issue we highlighted a new NCVER report that looked at VET courses delivered totally online. This article presents the other element of this report: what good online practice looks like. In our last exciting episode In the article in … Read More
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Productivity Commission reviews the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development
In its latest VET-related Review by the Productivity Commission is concerned to make VET accessible, efficient and of high quality. The first stage in the process has produced an issues paper. The Review The Review “will assess progress made by … Read More
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