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Tom Karmel

Managing Director of NCVER
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National Centre for Vocational Education Research

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The impact of wages on the probability of completing an apprenticeship or traineeship

Making use of the NCVER Apprentice and Trainee Destination Survey, this paper focuses on wages and the impact they have on the decision not to continue with an apprenticeship or traineeship

Skilling and reskilling for our (greener) future


How reasons for not completing apprenticeships and traineeships change with duration

This paper finds that poor working conditions or non-sympathetic bosses or workmates have an immediate effect for many trainees

The effectiveness of the traineeship model

The traineeship model is currently targeted at a broader group of people compared with the original target group of young unemployed persons as envisaged by the Kirby Enquiry

Young people finding their way in a new era
Apprenticeships in the downturn

This paper describes what we know about apprenticeships and traineeships, with a view to assessing how the current economic downturn will affect them

Competition in the training market

NCVER commissioned six leading thinkers to offer insights into what is meant by a training market, constraints upon that market and the areas for improvement in the system which would allow consumers greater choice

The contribution of VET to Australia's skills base
Reflections on the tertiary education sector in Australia

The split between higher education and vocational education and training (VET) in Australia is not clean

Measuring educational outcomes: vocational education and training

This paper provides a history of performance measurement for the vocational education and training (VET) sector, beginning with the creation of the Australian National Training Authority in 1992 and ending with what we know of the current reforms

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Can an older mother enjoy motherhood with meaningful paid work sidelined while her children are young? Or pay the price of juggling if both are to take centre stage? What is it like to contemplate being in your fifties or sixties and caring for a teenager when your friends and family who started earlier are retiring and leading ‘the good life'?

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Dr Maria Tumarkin from Swinburne’s Institute for Social Research has made The Age book of the year non-fiction shortlist for her story, Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter.

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