Contents of Past Journals
Volume 7 Number 1 – June 2009
| ARTICLES | Thomas Deissinger | The European Qualifications Framework to the European Lifelong Learning Perspective: How European countries are preparing to cope with the new philospohy of VET – PDF |
| John Cokley and W Rankin | Ethnic and Cultural Focus in Airport Driver Training- PDF | |
| Terri Seddon | The Productivity Challengein Australia: The case for professional renewal in VET teaching – PDF | |
| Brenda Pritchard and Damon Anderson | The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning in TAFE: Chanllenges, issues and implications for teachers – PDF |
Volume 6 Number 2 – December 2008
| ARTICLES | Waheed Asghar and Sulaman Hafeez Siddi | Apprenticeship training in Pakistan: A comparative study of apprenticeship practices in Punjab and european countries – PDF |
| Hitendra Pillay, Kathy Kelly and Megan Tones | Exploring work and development options to reduce early labour force exit of mature aged Australians – PDF | |
| Louise Watson | Improving the experience of TAFE award-holders in higher education – PDF | |
| Chris Van Der Linde | TAFE Diploma Graduates: Personal capital investments and returns – PDF | |
| Ruth Wallace, Mark Manado, Cathy Curry and Richard Agar | Working from our strengths: Partnership in learning – PDF |
Volume 6 Number 1 – June 2008
| ARTICLES | Ian Robertson | VET teachers’ knowledge and expertise – PDF |
| Michele Simons and Erica Smith | The understandings about learners and learning that are imparted in Certificate IV level courses for VET teachers and trainers – PDF | |
| Darryn Snell and Alison Hart | Reasons for non-completion and dissatisfaction among apprentices and trainees: a regional case study – PDF | |
| Nadezda Novakovic | Thinking on the edge: the influence of discussion and statistical data on awarders’ perceptions of borderline candidates in an Angoff awarding meeting – PDF |
Vol 5 Number 2 – December 2007
| ARTICLES | Robin J Ryan | Commonwealth power in respect of vocational education in Australia: some historical vignettes with future potential PDF |
| Joanne Pyke, Santina Bertone, Marty Grace and Robyn Broadbent. | Two birds with one social policy stone: youth employment and regional skills shortages in Australia. PDF | |
| Sue O’Keefe, Lin Crase and Brian Dollery | Does the reality of workplace training match the theory? An analysis of public sector employees’ training decisions PDF | |
| Paul Comyn | Industry links with vocational education and training in China. PDF |
Vol 5 Number 1 – April 2007
| ARTICLES | Susanne Armstrong | Factors impacting upon the performance of Workplace Assessors: A case study PDF |
| Michelle Barker and Leigh Habermann | Global strategies for international education providers in Australia: A case study of Tropical North Queensland TAFE PDF | |
| S. Choy and J. Woodlock | Implementing Indigenous Standpoint Theory: Challenges for a TAFE Trainer PDF | |
| Stephen Darwin | The changing contexts of vocational education: Implications for institutional vocational learning PDF |
Vol 4 Number 2 – December 2006
| ARTICLES | Sue Kilpatrick and Pat Millar | Extension and the VET Sector: Time for closer alignment? PDF |
| Nola Alloway, Leanne Dalley-Trim, Annette Patterson & Karen Walker | Trade Barriers: To Invest, or not to invest, In a Trade as a career PDF | |
| Martin Johnson | A review of vocational research in the UK 2002-2006: Measurement and accessibility issues PDF | |
| Mehmet Taspinar | Restructuring the Turkish Vocational Technical Secondary Education System towards EU membership PDF |
Vol 4 Number 1 – April 2006
| ARTICLES | Silke Hellwig | The competency debate in German VET: an analysis of current reform approaches PDF |
| Chris Van Der Linde | A new paradigm for evaluating TAFE graduate outcomes PDF | |
| Thomas Deissinger, Erica Smith and Richard Pickersgill | Models of full-time and part-time vocational training for school-leavers: A comparison between Germany and Australia PDF | |
| Tony Brown | Education for organising in a hot climate: a manufacturing union experience PDF |
Vol 3 Number 2 – December 2005
| ARTICLES | Chris Selby Smith and Fran Ferrier | Funding arrangements for VET students with a disability: more talk or actual improvement? PDF |
| Andy Smith and Sephen Billett | Myth and reality: Employer sponsored training in Australia PDF | |
| Tom McDonald and Beverly Jackling | An analysis of the environment as a means of assessing training needs in the Insurance industry in Australia PDF | |
| Jonathan Winterton | From bologna to Copenhagen: Progress towards a European credit transfer system for VET PDF |
Vol 3 Number 1 – April 2005
| ARTICLES | Angela Hill and Sue Helme | VET in schools for indigenous students. ‘hands on’, default, or promising? PDF |
| Malcolm Abbott | Strategic directions in New Zealand’s tertiary education PDF | |
| Clare McBeath | Vocational Centres in Fiji Schools: A needs analysis | |
| Shelley Gillis and Patrick Griffin | Principles underpinning graded assessment in VET: a critique of prevailing perceptions PDF | |
| Penny Hoy-Mack | Workplace assessment in New Zealand: stated intentions and realisations PDF |
Vol 2 Number 2 – December 2004
| ARTICLES | Damon Anderson | Adult learners and choice in further education and training markets: constructing the jigsaw puzzle PDF |
| Gavin Moodie | Reverse Transfer in Australia | |
| Geoffery A. Tickell and Kosmas X. Smyrnios | TAFE-to-university transition: the effectiveness of an accounting degree articulation program | |
| Stewart Hase and Helen Saenger | When quality counts: implementing competency assessment in the workplace PDF | |
| BOOK REVIEW | Gail E. FitzSimons, Faculty of Education, Monash University | Stevenson, John (ed.) 2003, Developing vocational expertise: Principles and issues in vocational education, Allen & Unwin Sydney PDF |
Vol 2 Number 1 – April 2004
| ARTICLES | Malcolm Abbott and Hristos Doucouliagos | The cost efficiency of New Zealand’s polytechnics PDF |
| Simon Roodhouse | Employability and workforce development- a policy and practise dilemma for higher education PDF | |
| Anne Graham, Renata Phelps, Berenice Kerr and Lee McMaster | Pushing the boundaries or overstepping the mark? Exploring the potential of university courses for final year high school students’ career pathways PDF | |
| Susan Johns, Sue Kilpatrick and Barton Loechel | Pathways from rural schools: does school VET make a difference? PDF | |
| INVITED ARTICLE | Thomas Deissinger | Germanys system of vocational education and training challenges and modernisation issues PDF |
| POLICY AND PRACTICE | Kate Fannon | ‘Needle Stick’- a role-play simulation: transformative learning in complex dynamic social systems PDF |
Vol 1 Number 2 – December 2003
| ARTICLES | Catherine M Down | The impact of training packages: what might we learn about substantial system-wide change processes? PDF |
| Kisilu Mashtakh Kitainge | Voices of the stakeholders: a case of power mechanics in Kenya PDF | |
| Viveca Lindberg | Vocational knowing and the content in vocational education PDF | |
| Robyn Smyth | Implementing VET in New South Wales government schools: investigating implementers’ expectations and perspectives PDF | |
| Rebecca Soden and Bob Pithers | The realization of critical thinking aims in a degree program for vocational tutors PDF | |
| EDITORIAL | Andy Smith |
Vol 1 Number 1 – April 2003
| ARTICLES | Pauline James and Pam St Leger | Crossing school-community boundaries for vocational education: enabling learning for potential early school leavers PDF |
| Sue Kilpatrick and John Guenther | Successful VET partnerships in Australia PDF | |
| Gavin Moodie | The missing link in Australian tertiary education: short-cycle higher education PDF | |
| INVITED ARTICLE | Jittie Brandsma | Vocational education and training reform in the Netherlands: seven years experience |
| POLICY AND PRACTICE | Doug McCurry | Notions of generic and work-related skills: essential, core, necessary and key skills and competencies |
| Hans-Guenter Wagner | The Sino-German experience – 20 years of cooperation in vocational education and traniing |