Vocational Education and Training

Registered providers who fail to show genuine commitment to vocational education and training and don't offer any courses over 12 months would be automatically stripped of their registration.

As another school year begins, the ABC speaks to 10 recent high school graduates from all over country Australia about their hopes, dreams and fears for the future. 

The $2 million boost aims to attract 1,000 prisoners to the scheme, though former inmates say the existing programs are understaffed and inadequate.

Jak Rice went to shearing school hoping to build a career in wool, but what started as a necessity quickly became a passion as he works to improve his daily tally.

Army cadets used to be in almost every school and country town. Over the years the program fell out of popularity, but now it seems numbers are rebounding.

Federation TAFE introduces an accredited training course as modelling estimates that by 2028, nearly 250,000 Victorian patients are expected to demand medicinal cannabis.

Tahlia Quinlivan is vastly outnumbered by men in her workplace, but that only spurs her drive to succeed. She says women in her field are smashing down barriers, creating more diverse and compassionate workplaces.

Researchers who examined the experience of students leaving school and pursuing further education find young people are facing increasing pressure to attend university.

If your ATAR results leave you unsure of what career path to take, you’re not alone. Meet the business leaders who had to find alternative paths to success.

The Education Minister says Australia has one of the most segregated schooling systems in the OECD, based on funding.

A young Top End student is adding another layer of stress to her final year of high school, by working towards getting her pilot's license, to turn her dream of flying into a reality.

It's much dustier than the average classroom, but the lessons these students are taking could prove invaluable to Australia's agricultural industry amid the worker shortage.

Vanessa Grady studied to become a dental nurse, but now she drives machinery for an industry ready to embrace women's contributions to construction.

Adel Farr was prepared to leave her beloved west coast community in Tasmania to follow her career aspirations of working with children. Then she found out she didn't have to.

Chelsea Taylor thought university was the only option after school. But after three unfinished degrees and $30,000 in student debt, she felt "really, really lost" — until she became a train driver.

Tash Handford is taking part in an innovative new program training up enthusiastic city kids with no farming background to help address Australia's agricultural labour shortage.

Women make up just 5 per cent of the NSW workforce in key industries such as building and construction, with Indigenous women even less represented. A trades program in Dubbo is paving a new path.

Ever wanted to work on a TV or film set?  Employment in Australia's screen industry has jumped 37 per cent in recent years and crew members are wanted to work on productions. So what does it take to land a job?

Seven out of 10 wool classing trainees in Australia are now women — and 21-year-old Cally Spangler is one of them. It's a trend the industry is embracing as it looks to renew its ageing workforce.

A consultancy company, run by a self-described "complexity and systems thinker", is suing the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) for allegedly breaching an agreement by suspending a nearly $5 million work contract.

Moving from a remote town with a high youth crime rate to a cattle station changed Quentin Skeen's life and he wants more young people to have the same opportunity. 

The collapse of registered training organisation Inspire Education left many students — including some close to completing qualifications in industries with labour shortages — having to start over.

On the outskirts of an outback NT town, a rural training program is preparing students for successful careers in the cattle industry.

The education minister describes PwC's failure to disclose its interest in Top Education Group, while conducting a confidential review into the regulator of private colleges, as "completely unacceptable". 

Queensland TAFE and universities have been put on notice after the state's auditor-general warned their financial futures are at risk.