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December 9, 2014Entry to vocations: building the foundations for successful transitions
Improving the outcomes of students undertaking vocational education and training (VET) in schools is important to ensuring it is a viable post-school pathway for students. Investigating how to strengthen VET in Schools, this report suggests the following changes: defining its purpose as foundational preparation for mid-level qualifications or employment-based learning; better aligning the vocational curriculum […]
December 5, 2014
Australian vocational education and training statistics: Student outcomes 2014
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) has released Australian vocational education and training statistics: Student outcomes 2014 which may be of interest to you. The report provides information on VET students’ employment outcomes, and satisfaction with their training. Information about the outcomes for students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) during 2013 is […]
December 1, 2014
Career Development – The key to successfully skilling a workforce
Kate Carnell AO, ACCI CEO delivers a major speech on Career Development at the 2014 NAGCAS Conference. ‘School systems, employment services and other institutions need to take career development seriously by ensuring that it is a serious part of someone’s role, if not a full time role, rather than just a ‘tack on’. ‘When we […]
Mission Australia release 2014 Youth Survey
This year, 13,600 young Australians aged 15-19 took part in Mission Australia’s 13th annual #youthsurvey. The 2014 survey explored what young people value, their issues of concern, where they turn for help, their engagement in community activities and feelings about the future and included a particular focus on young people’s aspirations. The survey revealed that while over […]
November 30, 2014
Career Development: Looking Back; Moving Forward A.G. Watts
Annual Lecture, International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby, 6 November 2014 It was a great honour to give the first Annual Lecture in this series, back in 1999 (Watts, 1999). It is an even bigger honour to be invited to give this second one, as my final lecture on career development. I decided […]
