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- ‘ACEing’ community education in NSW
- ‘Landmarking’ professional development for the VET workforce
- 2018 VDC Teaching and Learning Conference
- 2019 VDC PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROGRAM RELEASED
- 2019 VDC Thought Leadership Series – DESIGN FACTORY
- 2020 Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005
- 2020 VDC Professional Learning Program Released
- 2020 VDC Professional Learning Program Released
- 2020 Victorian International Education Awards
- A better vision of VET?
- A more educated workforce?
- A National Job Cadet Program for young people in Australia?
- A new normal for youth post COVID-19?
- A new roadmap for VET?
- A new social settlement for Australian TAFE?
- A renewed focus on Teacher Education
- A skills-led reboot for Australia post COVID?
- A strategic review of online learning
- ACDEVEG (Australian Council of Deans of Education Vocational Education Group)
- ACDEVEG Annual Conference
- Adult Learners Week: 1-8 September 2020
- After the ATAR III: supporting young peoples’ passions and giving purpose
- And another VET review: This time in NSW!
- Another picture of VET’s teaching workforce
- Apprenticeships in a post-COVID world
- Apprenticeships: an international picture
- AQF review: The final report is out now
- Are micro-credentials a way to go bro?
- Are skill sets becoming a big thing? Maybe not!
- ASQA annual report released
- ASQA consultation on RTO self-assurance
- ASQA Rapid Review Released
- ASQA releasees resources on assessment in workplaces and through simulations
- ASQA Stakeholder Liaison Group: Call for Expressions of Interest
- ASQA targets trainer and assessor capability
- Australia and Indonesia explore closer VET ties
- Australia’s first comprehensive VET workforce survey
- Australian Council of Deans of Education Vocational Education Group: 5th Annual Conference ‘Diverse Pedagogies for Diverse VET Contexts’
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare looks at education and skills
- AVETRA: Helping to develop research skills and running policy forums!
- Beware educational cargo cults!
- Blended Learning: The Way to Go!
- Boundary spanning: VET and HE qualifications at AQF 5 and 6
- Building capable people: cultivating capabilities through education
- Building positive homestay experiences for international students
- CEO Message
- CEO Message
- CEO Message
- CEO MESSAGE
- CEO Message – ASQA Regulatory Strategy 2019-21 focuses on Trainer & Assessor Capability
- CEO Message – Supported internships: a program of social inclusion for young people with disability
- CEO message – VDC at Victorian Training Awards
- CEO Message – Vic Teacher/Trainer of the Year Award goes to GOTAFE
- CEO MESSAGE: – We Want Your Feedback!
- CEO MESSAGE: ACDEVEG VET Trainer Award / EdVET 2018
- CEO MESSAGE: New Skills First Program on Assessment
- CEO MESSAGE: VDC 2018 Teaching & Learning Conference Highlights
- CEO Message: VDC Celebrates World Teachers’ Day
- Changing young peoples’ perception of TAFE and VET
- Check out the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services
- Clarifying initial and continuing VET studies
- COAG Skills Council communique points to big VET agenda
- Commonwealth Auditor General praises new VET Student Loan Scheme
- Commonwealth Skills Reform Consultation
- Completing an apprentice or traineeship, or not
- Completing an apprenticeship: Does Scotland have the answer?
- Conversing about skilling the future workforce
- Coronavirus and international students: an update
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 and VET: an update
- Creativity, Innovation and Enterprise – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Deadline extended to 1 July 2019 TAE upgrade
- Delivering Skills for Today and Tomorrow program highlighted
- Developing ‘blue tech’ skills and applied research in TAFE
- Developing 21st Century skills through VET
- Do we need a Diploma of Professional Studies?
- Does course duration matter?
- Dual-sector universities call for action on education reform
- Educating the nurses of the future
- Employer and Student Views of VET
- Enhancing VET’s status post-school
- Experiences and outcomes of traditional trade apprenticeships
- Expert VET review panel established
- Extended transition date for existing third-party arrangements
- Firth VCAL Review Report released
- Focusing on Industry Engagement
- Free Skills First Professional Learning Program Launched
- Free PD for Victorian VET Providers and LLOs
- Free Victorian VET Teacher/ Learn Local Professional Learning Programs Launched
- Free Virtual World Teachers’ Day Celebration
- Gen Zs: what they do post school
- Generation COVID: young peoples’ issues with the pandemic
- Getting the workforce ready: challenges and opportunities for VET
- Good practice in online delivery
- Good teaching and learning: What really makes a difference?
- Group Training Companies do good work for apprentices and trainees
- Having your say on school vocational pathways in Victoria
- Higher apprenticeships: a never-ending story?
- Highlighting NCVER’s ‘No frills’ conference
- How are international students doing?
- How do employers use unaccredited training?
- How is technology impacting the Australian workforce?
- Human skills: the real future need of workers?
- Industry 4.0 is the buzz. What’s it mean for VET?
- Inquiry seeks community input on TAFE access for learners with disability
- International strategy for VET released
- International students studying VET offshore
- Introducing Costa Georgiadis, Keynote VDC T&L Conference
- Introducing VDC Summer Series
- Is small beautiful? The role and function of small VET providers
- Is tertiary education fit for purpose? Maybe not!
- Is there an oversupply of university graduates?
- ISSS Fellowships Available
- ITECA opens its College of Vocational Education and Training Professionals
- Joyce VET Review released
- Just announced – New Skills First Professional Learning Programs
- L H Martin Institute releases a series of discussion papers on VET issues
- Latest AVETRA newsletter highlights employability skills
- Latest data on VET student outcomes released
- Latest Traditional trade apprenticeships Research
- Learning in Turbulent Time: Free Online Research-Based Event
- Live, learn, stay: South Australia’s international education plan
- Looking at VOCEDPlus’s special collections
- LSAY: What 25 years of research has taught us about Australian Youth
- Mackenzie Research Institute gets busy
- Mackenzie Research Institute launched
- Macklin Review recommends new FutureSkills Victoria
- Making the Unique Student Identifier (USI) even more useful
- Mandated upgrade to the Cert IV TAE
- Mapping the Future of Australian Education
- Measuring return on investment in vocational education and training
- Messages about training from the interim report of the Royal Commission into disability
- Ministers Announce Changes to The Australian Skills Quality Authority
- More than just women in hard hats – understanding the wide role of VET for the careers of Australian women
- National Careers Institute launched and Training Ambassador appointed
- National Skills Commission and Skills Organisations: The story so far
- National Skills Commission publishes inaugural report
- NCVER launches first two landmark essays
- NCVER releases its 2018 research messages
- NCVER Report: A new take on VET teaching capability
- NCVER take on work-based education in VET
- NCVER’s No Frills Conference goes virtual
- New research highlights post-school employment and further training destinations
- New resource for VET practitioners in the pipeline
- New shadow ministry announced
- New VET Advisory Committee established
- New VET teacher resource on VOCED
- New VOCED Landmark report released
- New Webinar Recordings & Latest Professional Learning
- New work realities for young people
- New(ish) data out on completion rates of VET qualifications
- Next steps for apprenticeships?
- Now I’m 17: Life for our Gen Zs
- NSW curriculum review: What’s it saying about VET in schools?
- Once again – Higher apprenticeships in the spotlight
- Online delivery of VET qualifications: what’s the story?
- Online resources to help young people navigate career pathways
- Online VET Professional Learning Australia-wide
- Outcomes for international students: What’s the story?
- Post election: What next for VET?
- Productivity Commission puts Higher Ed. in the spotlight
- Productivity Commission report on National Skills Agreement
- Productivity Commission Report on skills workforce agreement
- Productivity Commission reviews the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development
- Protecting the quality of international VET and English language education
- Proud Sponsor of the 66th Victorian Training Awards
- Rationalising VET’s qualifications?
- Re-imaging Tertiary Education: Binary System or Ecosystem?
- Re-imaging vocational qualifications after the AQF review
- Re-imagining Australia’s post-secondary education and skills system
- Reforming VET sector funding? Dual-sector institutions have their say
- Register now for ‘No Frills’ 2019
- REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference
- Repositioning VET in Schools in South Australia
- Rethinking Australian tertiary education?
- Rethinking the aged care workforce
- Reviewing senior secondary pathways
- Reviewing tertiary education in the UK
- Reviews of Victorian post-secondary education and ASQA announced
- SAVE THE DATE – 2019 VDC TEACHING & LEARNING CONFERENCE
- SAVE THE DATE – 2019 VDC TEACHING & LEARNING CONFERENCE
- Save The Date – 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference
- School-to-work pathways highlighted
- Scripting the future of further education in the UK
- SEMESTER 2 – 2020 VDC Professional Learning Program
- Shining a Spotlight on VET Teacher Education and Development
- Skilling for the digital economy
- Skills for Victoria’s Growing Economy – Macklin Review launched
- Skills Week good stuff on the NCVER website
- SKILLSROAD survey highlights youth experiences
- South Australia launches review of VET in schools
- South Australian Micro-credentials Pilot
- Strategy for tertiary education in rural, regional and remote Australia released
- Student experience in higher education: the latest data released
- Student journeys in VET and Higher Education
- Supporting apprentices through COVID-19
- Swinburne report highlights workforce needs for a digital future
- Taking a hard look at work-based education in VET
- TDA & AVETRA Innovation Scholarship – Now Open
- The ‘modern worker’ and skills
- The 2019-20 Federal Budget: What it means for VET
- The 2019-20 Victorian Budget: What’s in it for VET?
- The AIG new apprenticeship model
- The Difference Education Can Make
- The Federal Budget 2020-21: Support to take on and keep apprentices and trainees
- The future of work: Queensland shares its view
- The labour market for apprentices
- The National Disability Coordinator Officer (NDCO) Program
- The National Skills Commission: What’s it going to look like?
- The risks and rewards of Vocational Education: When is it a good alternative to Higher Education?
- The Royal Commission on aged care interim report has some training messages
- The use of education agents: a snapshot
- The value and state of TAFE
- The VDC are proud to partner with IBSA Academy to enhance and assist in your Professional Development journey
- The VDC Teaching & Learning Conference Goes Virtual
- The VET in schools’ data for 2018 are out. Participation is down
- The VET sector we need post-COVID?
- The VET workforce: What does it look like?
- Tips for teachers: Being cyber secure
- Total VET Effort Steady
- Total VET numbers for 2018: Some are up, others are down
- Total VET students 2019: The Numbers
- Training Packages and competency: a revised look?
- Training packages: meeting student needs
- Undergraduate degrees in TAFEs?
- Unpacking VET for secondary students
- UPCOMING WEBINAR: Compliance and Auditing of Online Courses
- Vale Chloe Dyson
- Valuing Adult and Community Education (ACE) – properly
- Valuing TAFE in Queensland
- Valuing VET, and making good career choices
- VDC 2019 Teaching & Learning Conference Highlights
- VDC Conference: Industry Engagement / Student Engagement
- VDC COVID-19 Response – Online Professional Learning to continue
- VDC Launches Semester 1 Professional Learning Program
- VDC Launches VET CHAT
- VDC New Online Professional Learning Released
- VDC STAKEHOLDER SURVEY 2018
- VDC Teaching & Learning Conference May 2019: Program Announced!
- VDC Teaching and Learning Conference
- VDC VET Chat with Industry Experts
- VET College Leaders from around the world meet in Melbourne
- VET Completion Rates, A New ‘total’ Picture
- VET in Schools Numbers Holding Steady(ish)
- VET in schools numbers up in 2019
- VET International Practitioner Fellowships
- VET International Practitioner Fellowships – 2021 Round 1
- VET issues highlighted at the NCVER’s ‘No frills’ conference
- VET issues highlighted in “Conversation”
- VET Reform Roadmap: Micro-credentials paper
- VET student outcomes: what are the messages?
- VET Teacher/Trainer of the Year Winner Announced
- VET: as good or better than uni. as a post-school option?
- Victorian and NSW VET Sector Reviews Update
- Victorian TAFE enrolment processes audited
- VOCED Plus pods redesigned
- WA review of skills, training and workforce development
- WAVE National Forum 2020
- WAVE’s interactive OctoberVET webinar
- What education and training are young people doing?
- What is good practice in teaching digital skills in VET programs?
- What will digitisation mean for the learning and campus experience?
- What’s happening with apprentices and trainees in 2019?
- When you ‘explore’ RPL, what do you find?
- Who’s who in and around the VET sector?
- Work-based education in VET
- Work-based learning and its role in CBT
- Workforce development needs: The latest from AiG
- Workplace Equality and Respect
- Young people climbing the job ladder
- Young People: Is VET failing them?
- Getting the right mix of work skills
- Taking a hard look at the AQF
- VET student numbers are falling. Why?
- 2018 VDC Conference
- VDC Official Opening Ceremony
- Reviewing the VET Regulator Act
- TAFE and its Contribution to Victoria
- The 2018 AVETRA Practitioner Research Conference: Some highlights
- New Course to Grow Disability Support Workforce (Vic)
- Building confidence in VET Practice: 4th Annual Conference on VET Teaching and VET Teacher Education
- 2018 VDC Teaching and Learning Conference Introducing Dr. Rich Allen Keynote Presenter: Using innovative practices to build and maintain learner engagement
- Showcasing the TAE: what the statistics tell us
- Degree or no degree for VET teachers? That is the question
- VET teacher education highlighted in Brisbane
- CEO Message:
- Introducing Wendy Perry – 2018 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference MC and Keynote Presenter
- Job openings in the future
- Getting the right mix of work skills
- Improving participation and success for VET’s disadvantaged learners: Another take
- Engineering Next-Generation Learning Conference – Call for papers and presentations
- CEO Message
- VET and the Victorian budget
- VET and the 2018-19 Federal budget
- An evaluation of the UK’s new apprenticeship model
- Modelling future participation in tertiary education
- Completing a VET qualification: What are the key factors?
- PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! VDC 2018 Teaching and Learning Conference
- Enhancing lifelong career and skills pathways
- Lessons from the reviews of TAFE in South Australia
- Closing the gaps: Reviewing rural, regional and remote education
- Vic Secondary Teachers working with learners who are deaf or hard of hearing
- 2017 VDC Annual Report / Strategic Plan 2018-2020
- Apprenticeships by degrees?
- Some ‘golden rules’ for good online learning.
- Moving on from secondary school to VET
- Professional Learning and Practice for the VET Workforce Seminar
- Disability and disadvantage in focus: What VET and others can do to help
- Building basic work skills for all Australians: Words of wisdom from the OECD
- Who chooses VET: Students’ aspirations and choices
- What is good policy for VET institutions?
- Are you looking for an easier way to manage your team’s PD & Trainer Files?
- CEO Message – Funded workshop – Skills First: Developing effective training and assessment strategies
- VET and Community Education’s role in regional development
- The VOCED database: All there is to know about VET
- In the year 2030: VET and its role
- VDC Free Thought Leader Seminars 2018
- Apprenticeships: What does their future look like?
- What is the essence of quality in VET?
- Women in traditional male dominated trades
- CEO Message – VET Practitioner Research Network
- Presenters Wanted! AVETRA VET Practitioner Research Conference 2018
- A training surprise package
- Changing jobs
- Taking the data pulse in your industry area
- Subject – Specialist pedagogy in VET teaching
- CEO Message – Skills First PD 2018
- NOW OPEN! – 2018 VDC Professional Development Program
- Non-accredited training takes a dive
- Giving apprenticeships a red hot go
- Fixing teacher training for VETiS
- CEO Message
- Valuing VET in the bush
- Digital skills and the future of work
- Is competent good enough?
- Skills & Thrills and WorldSkills Australia 2018
- CEO Message
- Encouraging lifelong learning
- Call for a renewed focus on basic literacy and numeracy skills
- Australia too can write applied research into TAFE’s mission
- SAVE THE DATE! – AVETRA RESEARCH CONFERENCE
- CEO Message
- Student mindset matters for learning success
- Hands-on innovation
- The Australian jobs landscape
- Applied Research and Innovation in TAFE
- CEO Message – 2017 Victorian Training Awards
- International perspectives on VET
- VET in Schools merits top marks
- VET – investing in Australia’s social and economic future
- CEO Message
- 2017 VDC Thought Leaders Seminar – PUTTING VET IN THE SPOTLIGHT with Carolyn Miller
- Training the existing workforce – Rewards and Challenges
- Trade Teachers Speaking!
- When VET is at its Best
- CEO Message
- Careers advice for school leavers needs a shake-up
- Effective leadership shapes high performing workplaces
- Differing trends for apprenticeship & traineeship commencements
- CEO Message – Is the VET Sector ready for the NDIS?
- Clearing the pathways between VET and Higher Education
- Training today and skills for tomorrow
- What’s the role of the Australian Industry Skills Committee?
- CEO Message – Industry Engagement for Teachers and Practitioners
- VET Under The Microscope
- Recognising and protecting VET’s role in tertiary education
- What jobs are needed and where?
- CEO Message – New VDC Premises
- Is Australia’s VET Mojo Falling Away?
- VET’s Innovation Cards on the Parliamentary Table
- 10 High Impact Teaching Strategies
- CEO Message
- SUPPORTING VET TEACHERS TO IMPROVE TRAINING QUALITY
- The hard facts about soft skills
- Time to Link VET and STEM with Schools
- Could apprenticeships bring VET and higher education together?
- CEO Message
- CPD for the VET Workforce – what should it look like?
- Level playing field – if jobs count, then VET has the numbers
- What the main cause of slipping apprenticeship and traineeship numbers?
- CEO Message
- VDC VET Leaders Lunch – Special Guest Luke Hodge
- A toolkit of teaching strategies that power up learning
- Good reasons for governments to invest in VET
- WorldSkills 2017 is fast approaching
- CEO Message
- Employers seek training to improve quality of goods and services
- Data from the bush underlines VET’s importance to regional prosperity
- Canadian applied research draws on VET providers’ expertise
- CEO Message
- Practical national guidelines for effective online learning
- VET is closing education gaps for Indigenous Australians
- The apprenticeship model has a lot to teach us
- Now you are a Manager – what next!
- CEO Message
- Assessment Judgements – Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence
- Staying ahead of the game
- Have your say in Queensland
- Prejudice is a conscious choice. Unconscious bias is… well, unconscious.
- Virtual management pioneer to visit Australia
- CEO Message
- Feedback is a powerful teaching art
- VET’s international student numbers continue to climb
- The annual wrap of new knowledge generated by the NCVER
- LGBITQ what is your understanding?
- CEO Message
- CEO MESSAGE: TAFE Victoria, VDC Skills First grants and Sir Ian Botham
- Ice addiction & training
- Slowly but surely Australia is waking up to VET
- Qualifications do reap rewards
- Training ideas that work
- Have you ever wondered what motivates you or your team?
- CEO MESSAGE: Welcome to our First Edition for 2017
- The good, bad and ugly of work experience
- 9/10 VET graduates recommend training
- Australian Jobs growth
- Securing future work for young people
- NCVER No Frills Conference 2017 – Call for Presenters
- Growing Focus on Apprenticeship Reforms
- Feedback invited on draft Foundation Skills Professional Standards Framework
- 2017 VDC Professional Development Program
- Immersive Virtual Reality now a reality – What’s next?
- VET is key in securing transitions for the Auto industry
- Where are early school leavers enrolling?
- CEO Message: 2016 Australia Malaysia ‘Towards 2020’ Visit
- International Education by the numbers
- VET levels the playing field
- Australia’s manufacturing future looking pretty rosy
- CEO Message: Emotional Intelligence
- Australia’s Innovation Performance Lagging
- Teaching VET in Australia
- Redesigning Tertiary Education in New Zealand
- CEO Message: VDC VET Thought Leaders Function
- Commonwealth predicts a Million New Jobs by 2020
- Setting the Right Course Fee in VET for participation
- What is the perfect balance? Combining work and study
- CEO Message: Free Online LLN resources
- 1 in 8 Young Australians are ‘NEET’
- Apprenticeships: the key for work integrated learning
- Powering up Queensland’s skills base
- Skills First in Victoria
- CEO Message
- Time to get serious about national VET policy
- VDC Visits KOTO College in Vietnam
- Keeping apprentices engaged
- Effective partnerships for vocational learning in secondary schools
- CEO Message
- A single tertiary education funding model
- The value of training to key VET stakeholders
- Government-appointed Advisory Group ask for apprenticeship system reform
- Youth development – laying foundations for the long term
- CEO Message
- Australia’s ageing workforce and the need to customise VET delivery
- Continuing Professional Development
- Pathways to higher education
- Recognising TAFE’s strengths in applied research
- CEO Message
- Study captures VET sector diversity
- Qualifications and Employment Outcomes
- Innovative e-learning in the UK training sector
- CEO Message
- VET in Australia…Take a Bow
- Methodical, long term, statewide workforce planning
- Young Australians need education to get real
- RedSpace: thinking
- CEO Message
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