This section provides links to resources for Vocational Education and Training (VET) practitioners, businesses, and educational
institutions.
You will find information about apprenticeships, quality control, standards, Industry Skills Councils, the National Skills
Shortage Strategy, Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), and professional development.
Australian Apprenticeships Job Pathways
This website is aimed at those considering an apprenticeship. It is organised into a number of sections such as Self Help;
Information and Links; Careers Advisers; and a search facility by various criteria including industry, trades, and job pathways
charts.
Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) links
This website explains the revised Australian Quality Training Framework that came into effect in 2007. It includes a continuous
improvement register, an RTO update, and a publication relating to the changes.
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Associations (AVETRA)
The Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) brings together research stakeholders and researchers
from TAFE, university, industry and government. It holds an annual Conference every year and archives the proceedings on this
website.
e-standards
This site is maintained by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework to support the developing national infrastructure for
managing electronic learning resources in the training system. You will find here recommended standards for technical services,
information formats, and intellectual property management.
Indigenous portal
The Indigenous Portal is your window to resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services for Aboriginal
people and Torres Strait Islanders.
Industry Skills Councils (ISC)
This website is shared by 11 national Industry Skills Councils (ISCs). You will find here training
news, national training issues, and industry reports.
National Skills Shortage Strategy
This website provides guidelines for the Workforce Innovation Program (WIP), which is a continuation of the National Skills
Shortages Strategy 2004 to 2008. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) initiative focuses
on active engagement with industry.
Reframing the Future
Reframing the Future is a major workforce development initiative of the Australian, State, and Territory Governments. It assists
in building the capacity of the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system to support the implementation of
the national training system and the aims of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) and its national reform agenda.
Skills and Training Information
This website aims to provide employers, employees, job seekers and their support organisations with skills and
training information and contacts. It is one support element for the Australian Government's Skilling Australia
for the future initiative. You can find examples of occupations and qualifications that may be used under initiatives such
as Australian Apprenticeships and the Productivity Places Program. You will also find links to organisations that provide
practical assistance.
training.com.au
This website provides a single point of access to a wide range of vocational education and training information, products
and services in Australia.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Australia
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Australia Limited is a ministerial company owned by the Commonwealth,
State and Territory Ministers responsible for Training.TVET Australia was established in 2005 to provide responsive and high
quality services to support the National Training System. Services include An integrated service to enable users of the national
training system to identify and acquire training materials, identify copyright requirements and enter licenses for use of
that material consistent with the scope and direction of the NQC.
Vocational Education and Training (VET) Glossary
This glossary contains terms (including abbreviations) likely to be found in recent literature of Australian vocational education
and training (VET) research and policy. Where a term has a broader general meaning, the definition given refers to its use
in the VET context. Many of these terms have been drawn from A glossary of Australian vocational education and training terms from
the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research (NCVER).
VOCED Thesaurus
This is the online version of the VOCED Thesaurus, used at NCVER to create index terms for the VOCED research database. It
contains over 3000 terms related to VET, especially in the areas of research and policy. It is a valuable source of controlled
terms for use as metadata, as well as enabling greater precision in VOCED indexing and searching.
