[*] Mix or match? New Apprentices' learning styles and trainers' preferences for training in workplaces
Thursday, 11 May 2006
This qualitative study examines the learning styles and preferences of a group of New Apprentices (apprentices and trainees) and the training preferences of their workplace trainers in three industry sectors--manufacturing, retail and community services. An understanding of learning preferences offers a useful starting point for trainers, enabling them to recognise how they can best `connect' with New Apprentices and therefore design effective learning environments. [View]

Student traffic: Two-way movement between vocational education and training and higher education
Thursday, 9 June 2005
Movement in Australia's tertiary sector - between and within higher education and vocational education and training - is a key feature of Australia's post-compulsory education system. This report investigates the extent and nature of student traffic between the two sectors, nationally and in South Australia from 1997 to 2002. [View]

[*] Shifting mindsets: The changing work roles of vocational education and training practitioners
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Vocational education and training (VET) practitioners have been subject to unparalleled change in the past ten years. Building on previous work (Harris et al. 2001), this project set out to explore how the changing environment is impacting on practitioners' work and the implications these changes have for the quality of VET provision and the role of the new VET professionals. [View]

Career contribution to VET research acknowledged
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
University of South Australia researcher in vocational education and training (VET), Professor Roger Harris has been named as the inaugural VET Researcher of the Year by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. [View]