EdResearch Online is a database of over 11 000 articles from more than 120 Australian education journals published since 2000.

The Australian Blueprint is an integrated national framework for career services and programmes that specifies the competencies all Australians need to build their careers.

The Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies provides information on the complex and wide-ranging issues that affect young people today, from adolescence to the early adult years.

ADCET provides information about inclusive teaching, learning and assessment strategies, and support services for people with disabilities in post secondary education and training.

News and research from Australia's leading policy centres and institutes. The site includes links to research on Education and Employment and Workplace Relations.

This publication provides statistical information on apprentices and trainees for the quarter ending 31 December 2005.

In 2002, the Government announced Career and Transition (CAT) Pilot projects to be funded across Australia in response to the Footprints to the Future report.

This framework was developed by the MCEETYA Taskforce on Transition from School. It presents transitions options for young people.

This document is designed to help people who are involved in delivering Career Education in Australian secondary schools.

This report describes career information, guidance and counselling arrangements in Australia and identifies gaps and opportunities and good practice models in the provision for career services.

The Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning examines social patterns of student achievement and develops policy to improve the benefits of education.

DSF is an independent, not for profit body with a mission to achieve changes needed to enable all Australians to reach their potential through the acquisition of productive skills.

The Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) has completed a project consultancy to develop a universal recognition and recording strategy for the eight groupings of employability skills.

This volume of readings summarises NCVER managed research into employability skills, skills considered vital in the current labour market.

This site contains information about salaries, employment and further study of Australian graduates. It also has searchable data from the latest Graduate Destination survey.

Graduate Careers Australia presents annual information about graduate employment prospects, earnings and satisfaction with the university experience.

This report investigates whether school VET programs programs provide successful outcomes for participants, in terms of retention to Year 12 and full-time engagement with employment or learning.

This report, based on a survey of 1000 Indigenous VET students, looks at the extent to which VET helps to achieve desired outcomes for individuals and communities.

The Indigenous Education and Training 2005-2008 programmes are built upon the foundation of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP).

This section of Graduate Careers Australia contains a range of online booklets which provide students with information to help in the transition to a full time graduate position.

This study examines the role of vocational education and training (VET) and occupations in innovative industries and firms.

The ICCDPP site facilitates policy learning through the international exchange of knowledge and information concerning public policy and career development issues.

The Leaders in Careers forum brought together leaders from industry, business and schools to develop strategies to help students make informed decisions about future career directions.

On 29 March 2004, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Training tabled its report entitled 'Learning to Work: Inquiry into Vocational Education in Schools.'

A series of reports on the social characteristics of Australian youth published by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Latest Media Releases from Graduate Careers Australia about graduate destinations.

The DEEWR monthly vacancy report provides the Skilled Vacancies Index, the Information and Communication Technology Vacancy Index, and Australian JobSearch vacancies by occupation..

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is Australia's principal provider of vocational education and training (VET) research and statistics.

This forum is created and maintained by guidance researchers and practitioners in the UK to publish the latest thinking and facts on evidence-based guidance practice.

The National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) is one of Australia’s leading research centres in the field of social sciences.

The New National Training System operates within the Department of Education, Science and Training and provides a national focus for vocational education and training.

The Northern Territory Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment runs an Indigenous Employment and Career Development Strategy which aims to build a skilled Indigenous workforce.

Reframing the Future was a national staff development and change management initiative funded by the Australian and State and Territory Governments.

In Queensland a Senior Education and Training Plan maps what a student will study during their senior schooling years. The plan is agreed between student, parents or carers, and the school.

Shaping our Future sets a vision, objectives and broad strategies for progressing vocational education and training (VET) in Australia until the end of the decade.

The Canadian Journal of Career Development publishes international career research and the website provides access to current issue and archives.

The report assesses net change in employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians based on 2001 Census results.

The study analyses outcomes by their mid-twenties for early school leavers and Year 12 completers from completing post school qualifications.

The Wingara Indigenous Employment and Professional Development Strategy 2003-2006 is the University of Technology Sydney's major Indigenous employment initiative.

This study investigates the views of TAFE teachers, school teachers and school students on Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Schools programs.

VOCED is a research database of abstracts in technical and vocational education and training with a focus on Australia and Asia Pacific.

The Australian Public Service Commission provides discussion and analysis of planning needs for an ageing workforce.

The Workplace Research Centre is one of Australia’s leading, multi-disciplinary, research and training organisations, monitoring and analysing the changing nature of work.

These pages will give you an understanding of the programmes and services DEEWR uses to support Indigenous employment and economic development.

The Government’s Indigenous Employment Policy is to generate employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians. This evaluation assesses how well the new arrangements are working.