
3 March 2021
EDITION 3 - 2021

VDC Launches Semester 1 Professional Learning Program
The VDC Professional Learning Program for Semester 1 is now available. The program offers a range of new sessions including the highly popular weekly VET Chats, 1-hour webinars and interactive 1.5-hour virtual workshops. The program covers many relevant topic areas for VET practitioners and includes sessions on online delivery, industry engagement, online assessment, RPL, teaching strategies and quality assurance. Mapped to the VET Practitioner Capability Framework, there are levels to meet everyone’s needs and delivered online to support the VET sector nation-wide.
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What will digitisation mean for the learning and campus experience?
How are universities and TAFEs re-imagining teaching, research, administration and campus design in a more digital world and post COVID?
The report’s authors, Vector Consulting, suggest that there will be profound and transformative changes.
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Next steps for apprenticeships?
Last issue we highlighted a paper developed by AiG on the future of apprenticeships in Australia
This article follows up on initiatives between the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Centre for Skills.
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VET student outcomes: what are the messages?
The results of the NCVER 2020 student outcomes survey convey the message is that completing a qualification is important. Of those students who did, 56% had a better employment status after training. Their satisfaction levels were also very high at 88%. COVID has had its effects too.
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