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- ACER - EdResearch Online
EdResearch Online is a database of over 11 000 articles from more than 120 Australian education journals published since 2000.
- Australian Blueprint for Career Development
The Australian Blueprint is an integrated national framework for career services and programmes that specifies the competencies all Australians need to build their careers.
- Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
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.
- Australian Disability Clearing House on Education and Training (ADCET)
ADCET provides information about inclusive teaching, learning and assessment strategies, and support services for people with disabilities in post secondary education and training.
- Australian Policy Online
News and research from Australia's leading policy centres and institutes. The site includes links to research on Education and Employment and Workplace Relations.
- Australian vocational education and training statistics: Apprentices and trainees - December quarter 2005, Summary
This publication provides statistical information on apprentices and trainees for the quarter ending 31 December 2005.
- Career and Transition (CAT) Pilot
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.
- Career and Transition Services Framework
This framework was developed by the MCEETYA Taskforce on Transition from School. It presents transitions options for young people.
- Career Education Quality Framework
This document is designed to help people who are involved in delivering Career Education in Australian secondary schools.
- Career Services in Australia: Supporting People's Transitions across the Lifespan (PDF - 572 KB)
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.
- Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning
The Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning examines social patterns of student achievement and develops policy to improve the benefits of education.
- Dusseldorp Skills Forum (DSF)
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.
- Employability 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.
- Generic Skills in Vocational Education and Training: Research Readings
This volume of readings summarises NCVER managed research into employability skills, skills considered vital in the current labour market.
- Grads Online
This site contains information about salaries, employment and further study of Australian graduates. It also has searchable data from the latest Graduate Destination survey.
- GradStats & The Grad Files | Graduate Careers Australia
Graduate Careers Australia presents annual information about graduate employment prospects, earnings and satisfaction with the university experience.
- Have school vocational education and training programs been successful?
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.
- Indigenous Australians in vocational education and training: National research strategy for 2003-2006
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.
- Indigenous Education and Training 2005-2008
The Indigenous Education and Training 2005-2008 programmes are built upon the foundation of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP).
- Industry Career Profiles | Graduate Careers Australia
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.
- Innovation agents: VET skills and innovation in Australian industries and firms
This study examines the role of vocational education and training (VET) and occupations in innovative industries and firms.
- The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy
The ICCDPP site facilitates policy learning through the international exchange of knowledge and information concerning public policy and career development issues.
- Leaders in Careers Forum (PDF - 336KB))
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.
- Learning to Work: Inquiry into Vocational Education in Schools
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.'
- Longitudinal Surveys Of Australian Youth Research Reports (LSAY)
A series of reports on the social characteristics of Australian youth published by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
- Media Releases | Graduate Careers Australia
Latest Media Releases from Graduate Careers Australia about graduate destinations.
- Monthly Vacancy Report
The DEEWR monthly vacancy report provides the Skilled Vacancies Index, the Information and Communication Technology Vacancy Index, and Australian JobSearch vacancies by occupation..
- National Centre for Vocational Education Research
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is Australia's principal provider of vocational education and training (VET) research and statistics.
- National Guidance Research Forum
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.
- National Institute of Labour Studies
The National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) is one of Australia’s leading research centres in the field of social sciences.
- New National Training System
The New National Training System operates within the Department of Education, Science and Training and provides a national focus for vocational education and training.
- OCPE Indigenous employment - strategy
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
Reframing the Future was a national staff development and change management initiative funded by the Australian and State and Territory Governments.
- Senior Education and Training (SET) Plans
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: Australia's National Strategy for VET 2004-2010
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
The Canadian Journal of Career Development publishes international career research and the website provides access to current issue and archives.
- The Future of Indigenous Work: Forecasts of Labour Force Status to 2011 (PDF - 368 KB)
The report assesses net change in employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians based on 2001 Census results.
- The impact of additional educational qualifications for early school leavers
The study analyses outcomes by their mid-twenties for early school leavers and Year 12 completers from completing post school qualifications.
- UTS Wingara Indigenous Employment and Professional Development Strategy 2003-2006
The Wingara Indigenous Employment and Professional Development Strategy 2003-2006 is the University of Technology Sydney's major Indigenous employment initiative.
- VET in Schools: A Post-Compulsory Education Perspective
This study investigates the views of TAFE teachers, school teachers and school students on Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Schools programs.
- VOCED
VOCED is a research database of abstracts in technical and vocational education and training with a focus on Australia and Asia Pacific.
- Workforce ageing: Materials for Human Resource practitioners in the Australian Public Service
The Australian Public Service Commission provides discussion and analysis of planning needs for an ageing workforce.
- Workplace Research Centre
The Workplace Research Centre is one of Australia’s leading, multi-disciplinary, research and training organisations, monitoring and analysing the changing nature of work.
- workplace.gov.au - Employment Assistance for Indigenous Australians
These pages will give you an understanding of the programmes and services DEEWR uses to support Indigenous employment and economic development.
- workplace.gov.au - Indigenous Employment Policy Evaluation (Stages 1 and 2)
The Government’s Indigenous Employment Policy is to generate employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians. This evaluation assesses how well the new arrangements are working.
