1. Welcome to Australia And the AVETRA - 2011 Wonderful World of Vocational Education and Training

2. AVETRA - 2011

3. What are the roles? – Gov – Industry – Education Who decides the training? – Plan/Industry/Mkt Industry standards into Training packages How much funding? – 1.7 B Gov – mainly input Industry $? – Training/Wages/Apprentices/levies How many trainees – 1.8m Public +2.2m Private Part time? 89% - 11% working pop – 30% 18/30

4. AVETRA - 2011 Post-compulsory education - voluntary What levels? 50% - Certificate III Regulation – Gov / State managed Equity – 4% Indigenous – funded equity schemes 80% public funded course in TAFE Top Courses? Hospitality/Business/Retail/Electrical

5. What is VET ? AVETRA - 2011 Leadership, Management & programme designer Funding.Regulation equity and governance Delivery interaction & assessment

6. Who are VET research players ? AVETRA – 2011 Fundingsources Programme managers managers Researchers

7. Who does VET research? AVETRA – 2011 Problem statement Literature search Question focus Data collection Findings - Analysis Reporting HonoursMasters Phd studies ARC ARCNCVER Local State Gov. Industry TAFE TAFEpractitioners Trainingconsultancies Researchconsultants HEd /TAFE Researchspecialists

8. AVETRA – 2011 Learning at Work Building TAFE and RTO’s Training access and national skilling What research is being done?

9. AVETRA – 2011 Learning at Work Building RTO’s Training access and skilling Assessment Equity & diversity Basic skills Small business Community building Leadership HRD strategies Teaching Curricula Programme design Career paths Learning cultures Wellbeing Reflective space Skill migration Work practices Skill retention What research is being done? E learning Apprentices F/L Managers Policy review- Nat/Int. Equity