15 JULY 2020
EDITION 13 - 2020
NSW curriculum review: What’s it saying about VET in schools?
April saw the publication of the first major review of the whole NSW school curriculum since 1989. It was led by Geoff Masters from the Australian Council for Educational Research.
Entitled ‘Nurturing wonder and igniting passion’, it aims “to ensure the curriculum equips students to contribute to Australian society in the 21st century”.
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When you ‘explore’ RPL, what do you find?
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) involves assessing someone’s relevant prior learning and existing skills to grant them formal recognition.
But, RPL has limited use, with less than 5% of all successful subject results granted through RPL and less than 3% of all students successfully completed any subjects using it. Why?
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Apprenticeships in a post-COVID world
May and June 2020 saw the release of a couple of papers focussed on apprenticeships during COVID and as we, hopefully, move beyond the pandemic.
The papers
The first of the papers, published by the National Australian Apprenticeship Association (NAAA)
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Looking at VOCEDPlus’s special collections
The VOCEDplus special collections provide quick access to sets of related research and resources in the VOCEDplus repository that VDC News readers may find useful.
So, what’s there?
Recently the VOCED team reorganised and revamped this resource to focus on a series of collections in 6 broad areas.
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