News and Events
2009 Education and Training Statistics Directory
From the desk of Malcolm Feiner (Department of Justice), please find a Directory of Education and Training Statistics, 2009.
The link below provides access to an extraordinary amount of valuable data arising from all recent national ABS and non-ABS statistical collections which have education and training as a direct focus. It also includes a range of other national ABS and non-ABS data collections where the primary focus is not education and training, but which contain data relevant to education and training. Statistical collections are surveys, censuses, or administrative by-product data sets from which data are made publicly available.
This information is of great value for those preparing business cases and business plans as well as activities for strategic positioning plans. The information assists in undertaking demographic scans, accessing longitudinal studies, obtaining information from adult literacy surveys, analysing international student enrollment, education expenditure and costs, and many more reports.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/1136.0?OpenDocument
Courtesy VISTA April Newsletter, www.vista.org.au/
Training Packages @ Work
2009 Environmental Scans
Most of Australia’s Industry Skills Councils (ISCs) have released their 2009 environmental scans, with all scans expected to be made available in the next few weeks.
The environmental scans, which are now required under the Training Package Development and Endorsement Process 2008, provide industry intelligence to the National Quality Council and up-to-date industry information for Skills Australia to assist in its analysis of Australia’s workforce development needs.
More information is available at http://www.tpatwork.com/ViewArticle.asp?articleid=3531
Launch of Dardee Boorai: the Victorian Charter of Safety and Wellbeing for Aboriginal Children and Young People
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/directions/aboriginal/charter/default.htm
Blueprint for Education and Early Childhood Development
The Blueprint for Education and Early Childhood Development includes the following priorities:
- Release a strategy for improving participation and outcomes in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage, including regeneration projects to transform educational infrastructure and provision through the Victorian Schools Plan, and setting out Government priorities for partnerships between business, schools and early childhood services
- Improve transitions to and from school by piloting transition plans for children starting primary school and developing ways to further strengthen school responsibility for monitoring young people’s pathways
- Better support vulnerable young people by developing a strategy to improve educational outcomes for students who are homeless
- Ensure our system meets the diverse needs of Indigenous children and young people by continuing to implement Wannik, the Government’s strategy for Koorie students, and working with the Commonwealth to develop a strategy to support Koorie children in early childhood settings
http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/commrel/policy/Blueprint2008/Blueprint_factsheet.pdf
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