Howard Gardner receives lifetime achievement award
Congratulations to Howard Gardner. Howard worked with us in April 2005 and again in our Future Minds Forum in 2007 [edit] Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Howard Gardner has won the...
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VET Systems and New Skills
This paper reports on a Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) project that explored policies, programs and other initiatives by Australia’s states and territories to support...
View ArticleFree ‘Learning Objects’ for Download
More than 1200 ‘learning objects’ drawn from Toolbox materials designed to support the delivery of vocational and technical education (VTE) qualifications are now available for download from a new...
View ArticleThe Knowledge Tree Goes Aural
The impact of podcasting and voice technologies on global e-learning practice is the focus of Edition 10 of The Knowledge Tree: an e-Journal of Learning Innovation. Published by the national training...
View ArticleHECS and TAFE
Structurally, this has been coming for a while and I can see some value in this if it is done correctly. There are dangers however, most notably in setting a price hurdle that will stop many from...
View ArticleSA Tafe numbers fall
Fall in TAFE applications in South Australia. The overall numbers of applications to TAFESA have fallen by about nine hundred. There is high demand for courses in nursing, teaching, police studies and...
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VET FEE-HELP Information 2009
New information has been added to the VET FEE-HELP web pages. This booklet gives the most current information about accessing VET FEE-HELP assistance to pay for all or part of VET tuition fees. It is...
View ArticleVET Priorities 2009
The National Quality Council has identified five Action Groups to work on achieving 5 priorities for 2009. They are: Vet Products for the 21st Century, Quality of Assessment Action Group, Skills for...
View ArticleVET docs available online
A collection of vocational education and training (VET) related research and policy documents from various regions of the world are now available online on VOCED, including many of the older...
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Skills, Gender and all that stuff….
At a time when Gender equity is so prominent in much media coverage, both within Australia and across the Globe, it is also sobering to consider the structural challenges faced by girls entering the...
View ArticleSkills 2006
NCVER releases latest apprentice and trainee statistics. December 2006 quarter apprentice and trainee statistics for the Australian vocational education and training system are now available on the...
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