Abstract
The Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is a comprehensive, national framework designed to provide quality outcomes for learners and meet the needs of potential employers. The interdependent checks and balances provide mechanisms for validating quality and relevance. Regular national surveys demonstrate that both students and employers are satisfied with their experience of the VET sector. However, whilst positive feedback is necessary it is not of itself sufficient. In effect it is a false benchmark. To provide best practices in teaching and learning necessitates lecturers having the appropriate skills and underpinning knowledge something that the mandatory Certificate IVE in Training and Assessment does not provide. A more valid benchmark is an objective analysis of the quality using a learning taxonomy such as SOLO. This preliminary analysis of a range of VET courses unequivocally found that course material was well below best practices expectations. However further work is needed.
Highlights
1.1 Australian VET SectorThe Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is the basis further education designed to provide work place relevant skills and the associated underpinning knowledge nationally
According to iVET: employer satisfaction focuses on employers’ evaluations of learners ‘competency development, its relevant to work and further training, and overall quality of the training and assessment; learner engagement focuses on the extent to which learners are engaging in activities likely to promote high-quality skill outcomes; competency completion rate is calculated for qualifications and units of competency delivered
On a broader canvas there are a number of strategic players that include: Council of Australian Governments (COAG); Ministerial Council of Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE); National Quality Council; State Training Authorities; Skills Australia; Industry Skills Councils and Industry Training Advisory Bodies (ITABs)
Summary
1.1 Australian VET SectorThe Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is the basis further education designed to provide work place relevant skills and the associated underpinning knowledge nationally. The National Training Information Systems (NTIS) is a register of all RTOs. On a broader canvas there are a number of strategic players that include: Council of Australian Governments (COAG); Ministerial Council of Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE); National Quality Council; State Training Authorities; Skills Australia; Industry Skills Councils and Industry Training Advisory Bodies (ITABs). On a broader canvas there are a number of strategic players that include: Council of Australian Governments (COAG); Ministerial Council of Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE); National Quality Council; State Training Authorities; Skills Australia; Industry Skills Councils and Industry Training Advisory Bodies (ITABs) Their detailed functions are beyond the scope of this paper. The Australian VET sector is regulated by a range of national, state and territory laws that include: the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011and the Standards for NVR Registered Training Organizations 2011. Legislative details are beyond the scope of this paper
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