Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919764
- Title
- Skilling Australia for the future?: a study of quality assurance in Australia's vocational education and training
- Author/Creator
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Agbola, Frank;
Lambert, Daniel
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business & Law, Newcastle Business School
- Description
- From the end of World War II until the early 1970s, Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Australia was surprisingly static and resilient to government-led reform, due to the dominance of industry and union power. Following the oil shocks of 1973 and associated unemployment and declining union power, there have been calls on the federal and state governments to adopt a more proactive approach to dealing with quality assurance in the VET sector. Today, private Registered Training Organisations are increasingly used by governments to directly address unemployment through programs such as the Productivity Places Program. As a result, an examination of quality assurance in the VET sector is increasingly important. This paper reviews the evolution of VET in Australia and examines what impact policy reforms have had on quality assurance in VET, identifying some opportunities and challenges facing the Australian VET sector in the changing global economy.
- Relation
- Unemployment and the Global Financial Crisis: Policy, Partnerships and Practice Conference 2009. Unemployment and the Global Financial Crisis: Policy, Partnerships and Practice: Presentation Summaries (Melbourne 1-2 December, 2009)
- Relation
- http://public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/unemployment09/index.html
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Centre for Public Policy / NESA
- Keyword(s)
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quality assurance;
vocational education training (VET);
Australia
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919764
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