PDWS

17Dec, 2019

Satisfaction with vocational education and training remains high

By: PDWS
Categories: News, VET Industry News, VET Sector

New data from over 170 000 vocational education and training (VET) students shows that satisfaction with VET remains high, according to a new report by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The annual National Student Outcomes Survey is Australia’s largest survey of VET students and provides information onRead More

17Dec, 2019

VET International Engagement Strategy 2025 launched

By: PDWS
Categories: News, VET Industry News, VET Sector

The Morrison Government has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure Australian VET sector continues to play a significant role in contributing to the development of a highly skilled workforce by lodging Vocational Education and Training International Engagement Strategy 2025. Australia’s first National Strategy for International Education 2025 enables Australia’s international educationRead More

17Dec, 2019

The rapid review of ASQA announced by Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business

By: PDWS
Categories: ASQA, News

A rapid review of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has been announced. We are sharing the details of the review with this article. Two recent national reviews have focused on the VET sector, including the role of ASQA - the 2019 Expert Review of Australia’s VET System (the JoyceRead More

16Dec, 2019

National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment Bill 2019

By: PDWS
Categories: ASQA, RTO, VET Sector

The National Vocational Education and Training regulator Amendment Bill 2019 has been lodged in the senate. The proposed amendments are intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the ASQA’s regulation of the sector. The changes strengthen registration requirements, modernise information and data sharing and improve the administrative efficiency ofRead More

04Dec, 2019

2019 Australian Training Awards winners announced

By: PDWS
Categories: News, Others, VET Industry News

The Australian Training Awards are the peak national awards for the VET sector recognising individuals, businesses and registered training organisations for their contribution to skilling Australia. On 21 November the awards were presented and the winners are: Lifetime Achievement Award — Wayne Collyer Wayne Collyer was Managing Director at PolytechnicRead More

04Dec, 2019

Communiqué for the COAG Skills Council Meeting – 22 November 2019

By: PDWS
Categories: News, VET Sector

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Skills Council (the Council) held its second meeting today in Brisbane to agree on an ambitious approach to enhancing vocational education and training (VET). Council congratulated the winners and finalists recognised at the Australian Training Awards on their outstanding achievements. The winners and finalistsRead More

03Dec, 2019

ASQA’s slash and burn approach on Registered Training Organisations

By: PDWS
Categories: ASQA, News

An approach that is not very well thought out can cause significant knee jerk reactions. This is exactly what we all are experiencing from ASQA. The poor implementation and monitoring of VET FEE-HELP scheme and the way a few private and public organisations took advantage and rorted the fundingRead More

03Dec, 2019

Victims of ASQA: The Real stories (Part – 1)

By: PDWS
Categories: ASQA, News

In this section we explore stories of how a regulatory body is destroying Australia’s education and training sector, the livelihood of people and causing immense stress and loss to the individuals working in the training organisations. Our first guest in this series is Brett Hilder. Brett Hilder is a businessmanRead More

03Dec, 2019

Has the Australian Skills Quality Authority taken Australia back 30 years?

By: PDWS
Categories: ASQA, News

The effects of the VET regulator’s actions on our industry and Australia’s reputation with regards to innovative learning has been detrimental to what is internationally seen as best practice. The attitude towards learning methods that are applied outside traditional face-to face classroom based training have put our education system atRead More

03Dec, 2019

The drop in traineeships and apprenticeships. Why is it happening?

By: PDWS
Categories: News, TAFE

A recent figures revealed that the federal government over the last five years has underspent close to $1 billion of its budget on TAFE, training and apprenticeships. This is on top of previous cuts. At the same time, that these budgets cuts are happening, Australia is still experiencing critical skillsRead More

Posts

Satisfaction with vocational education and training remains high

VET International Engagement Strategy 2025 launched

The rapid review of ASQA announced by Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business

National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment Bill 2019

2019 Australian Training Awards winners announced

Communiqué for the COAG Skills Council Meeting – 22 November 2019

ASQA’s slash and burn approach on Registered Training Organisations

Victims of ASQA: The Real stories (Part – 1)

Has the Australian Skills Quality Authority taken Australia back 30 years?

The drop in traineeships and apprenticeships. Why is it happening?

Search in Site

Recent Posts

Message from the CEO (12 August 2022)

13th Anniversary of Career Calling

The intelligence of different types

Recent Comments

Tag Cloud

Latest Tweets

Message from the CEO (12 August 2022)

13th Anniversary of Career Calling

The intelligence of different types