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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, from the Australain Council for Education Research.

• 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 Clearinghouse 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.

• Australia's National Training System (DEEWR)
  

  Australia's National Training System operates within the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and provides a national focus for vocational education and training.

• Beyond Graduation Survey
  

  The Beyond Graduation Survey is an investigation into the activities, outcomes and experiences of graduates in Australian higher education institutions.

• 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.

• 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 Information Booklets (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.

• 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 Research on Education Systems
  

  The Centre for  Research on Education Systems 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 (DEEWR)
  

  Employability skills are also sometimes referred to as generic skills, capabilities, enabling skills or key competencies. Australia’s Employability Skills were developed in 2002 by the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in consultation with other peak employer bodies, and outlined in the  Employability Skills for the Future report, funded by the Australian Government.

• Future of Indigenous Work: Forecasts of Labour Force Status to 2011
  

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

• 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.

• Grad Jobs and Dollars
  

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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
  

  This paper provides recommendations to focus national effort over the 2005–2008 quadrennium. The recommendations seek to accelerate the pace of change by engaging Indigenous children and young people in learning.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Quality and Professionalism in Career Development
  

  This Career Development page on the DEEWR website provides links to a range of career development frameworks, scholarships and studies.

• Research Reports (Graduate Careers Australia)
  

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

• 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.

• Strengthening Indigenous Employment (OCPE)
  

  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.

• 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.

• Wingara: Indigenous Employment and Career Development (UTS)
  

  The Wingara Indigenous Employment and Career Development Strategy is the University of Technology Sydney's major Indigenous employment initiative.

• 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.