The Australian Core Skills Framework is an important tool for VET Practitioners looking to assist and upskill learners. Different to foundation skills and the AQF, the ACSF has various uses and can be used in conjunction with other existing frameworks and tools to identify specific work performance standards.
This year's National VET Conference brings to you a range of key learning categories. Each of these enable you to select areas that are of importance to YOU and your RTO and make your professional development experience one of VALUE to your needs. Let's take a look at some Training/Student Engagement topics ....
Vocational Voices S4, Episode 2 - Steve Davis talks to NCVER Managing Director Simon Walker and Jenny Lambert, Director Employment, Education & Training at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. They start by defining what skill sets and micro-credentials actually are and the role they currently play in the VET system.
Recorded on 24/10/2019 as part of National VET PD Week, this webinar explored LLN testing and how the ACSF provides a structure for the identification of LLN needs, and to contextualise learning and assessment materials to ensure underpinning competencies are demonstrated.
This 2022 synthesis paper published by CEDEFOP points out that “teachers and trainers are at the frontline of VET delivery.” To do their job effectively requires that “they (re)skill and upskill towards future-oriented competences, which they can then pass on to students.”
Recorded on 27/07/2023 and forming part of Velg Training's Focus Week on Assessment Tools and Practices, explore innovative strategies for creating observation assessment instruments that accommodate diverse contexts and environments. Empower your VET assessments to provide real-world readiness!
Recorded on 30/11/2020 and forming part of the TAE PD Week, this webinar provided nine ways to create more meaningful or “sticky” learning that will influence the effective design, development, and review of learning programs within the vocational education and training (VET) context.
Before the introduction of the Standards for RTOs 2015, the AQTF outlined compliance requirements for the registration and operation of RTOs in Australia. Now, the AQTF (in conjunction with the ‘2016 VRQA Guidelines for VET Providers’) is only used by RTOs under the jurisdiction of the VRQA.
Skills Service Organisation (SSO), Australian Industry Standards (AIS), has partnered with RMIT University to identify workforce digital skills requirements and examine the capacity of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector to effectively meet the growing demand for digital skillsets. AIS invites stakeholders in the public safety, corrections, transport and logistics, aviation, rail and maritime industries to take part in a short, ten-minute survey to assist with this research.
As part of the 2017–18 Budget, the Australian Government announced funding of $24 million for 1200 Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarships that will support regional and remote people wishing to undertake Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) qualifications in higher education and Vocational Education and Training (VET). The Department of Education and Training is now seeking feedback from stakeholders on its draft of the ‘Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarships: Program Guidelines’. Submissions can be made until Friday 16 June 2017.
The 2017 National Skills Week will be held from Monday August 28 to Sunday 3 September. This year’s theme, ‘More Than You Know’, focuses on shifting pre-conceived ideas and raising the status of Vocational Education and Training (VET). Help showcase the many benefits of learning a skill or trade by holding your own National Skills Week event to promote qualifications, highlight career opportunities, engage the public, and stimulate career conversations!
On Friday 26 May 2017, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) will begin conducting the National Student Outcomes Survey: Australia’s largest survey of Vocational Education and Training (VET) students. This year the survey is expanding to include subject completers and graduates who either paid for their training themselves or whose employer funded their training. NCVER is expected to contact half a million students who completed training in 2016.