ERIC ED561243: Total VET Students and Courses 2014: Australian Vocational Education and Training Statistics

2015·0.66 MB·English

by  ERIC

Australian vocational education and training statistics
Total VET students
and courses 2014
National Centre for Vocational Education Research

Highlights

This publication provides, for the first time, an estimate on the nature
and extent of vocational education and training (VET) delivered by
Australian training providers in domestic and overseas locations.

It shows, that in 2014, around 3.9 million students undertook some form

of accredited VET delivered by 4601 training providers.

This collection includes, for the first time, accredited VET delivered by
Australian training providers beyond the scope of prior national
collections that were limited to information covering only government
funded or supported training.

It is important to note that 2014 is a transition year in which a number of
training providers were granted exemptions from reporting and others
did not report their training activity.

The coverage and completeness of the data should improve over time
once reporting exemptions are removed and training providers adapt to
mandatory reporting requirements.
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Contents
Introduction 4
Data source 4
More information 4
Summary 5
Tables 8
Terms 20
Explanatory notes 23

Tables
1 Australian VET students and participation rate (%) of Australians aged 15 years and over in VET by state or territory
of student residence, 2014 8
2 Students by state or territory of student residence and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 (%) 8
3 Students by provider type and the state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 (’000) 9
4 Training providers by state or territory of training provider’s head office, 2014 9
5 Students by selected characteristics and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 10
6 VET programs, 2014 11
7 Program enrolments by level, field of education, type of accreditation and selected student characteristics, 2014 11
8 Program enrolments by level, field of education, type of accreditation and additional student characteristics, 2014 12
9 Program enrolments in top 40 parent training packages by state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 13
10 Subject enrolments by subject result, delivery mode and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 14
11 Hours of delivery by subject result, delivery mode and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 15
12 Subject enrolments by provider type, funding source and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 16
13 Hours of delivery by provider type, funding source and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 17
14 Load pass rates by funding source and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 (%) 18
15 Programs completed by level and provider type, preliminary 2014 (’000) 18
16 Programs completed by level and state or territory of student residence, preliminary 2014 (’000) 18
17 Programs completed by level and state or territory of training provider’s head office, preliminary 2014 (’000) 19
18 Programs completed by state or territory of student residence and state or territory of training provider’s head office,
preliminary 2014 (’000) 19

Total VET students and courses 2014 3
Introduction
In November 2012, the then Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Standing Council on Tertiary Education,
Skills and Employment (SCOTESE) agreed to the introduction of mandatory reporting of nationally recognised
training activity from 2014 onwards. Under the mandatory reporting requirements, all Australian providers
(excluding those exempted by regulators) delivering nationally recognised training to students, either in
domestic or in overseas locations, must report information about these students and their training.
This publication provides, for the first time, an estimate of the extent and nature of all accredited vocational
education and training (VET) delivered in 2014 by Australian training providers. This picture of training activity
is otherwise known as ‘total VET activity’, to reflect that the information is now collected from all types of
providers and not only those in receipt of Commonwealth or state funding. Information is provided on the
number of training providers, students, enrolments in programs, enrolments in subjects, hours of delivery and
program completions.
The data in this publication cover the accredited training delivered by 4601 Australian providers, including
registered training organisations (RTOs) and non-registered training organisations (such as community
education providers and schools). For further information on the reporting scope, refer to the explanatory
notes on page 23.
It is important to note that 2014 is a transition year in which a number of training providers were granted
exemptions from reporting and others did not report their training activity. Many training providers also
reported data for the first time. As such:
 the data cannot be compared with that from any previous years
 data for some training activity are missing
 some student demographic data have high proportions of ‘not known’ responses.
The coverage and completeness of the data should improve over time once reporting exemptions are removed
and training providers adapt to the mandatory reporting requirements. For further information on the data
quality issues, refer to the explanatory notes on page 23.
Data source
The data in this publication are sourced from the National VET Provider Collection and the National VET in
Schools Collection. These collections are compiled under the Australian Vocational Education and Training
Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS). For further information on the scope of the data and
technical information, please refer to the explanatory notes on page 23.
More information
The data in this publication may be revised for a variety of reasons. For the latest data, visit the NCVER Portal
<http://www.ncver.edu.au>.
For additional data tables on total VET students and courses, refer to
<http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2828.html>.
Access to these data are governed by the Vocational Education and Training (VET) Data Protocol (updated
22 July 2015) and associated guidance, please refer to <https://education.gov.au/access-and-use-national-
vet-provider-collection-data>.
For information on government-funded VET students and courses (broadly defined as all activity delivered by
government providers and government-funded activity delivered by community educations and other
registered providers), refer to Australian vocational education and training statistics: government-funded
students and courses 2014, NCVER, Adelaide <http://www.ncver.edu.au/statistic/21053.html>.

4 Australian vocational education and training statistics
Summary
Training providers
This publication covers the accredited training delivered by 4601 Australian providers in 2014,
which comprised:
 3815 registered training organisations
 786 non-registered training organisations (such as community education providers and schools)
In 2014, accredited training was reported by: Table 4
 2865 private training providers
 960 schools
 497 community education providers
 210 enterprise providers
 57 TAFE institutes
 15 universities.

Student participation and characteristics

Student participation
The participation rate of Australians aged 15 to 64 years in VET is estimated at 23.3%. Table 1
In 2014, there were 3 908 000 students enrolled in training with 4601 Australian providers. Training Table 3
was delivered to:
 2 252 900 students (57.6%) at private training providers
 1 065 600 students (27.3%) at TAFE institutes
 190 300 students (4.9%) at schools
 185 100 students (4.7%) at community education providers
 78 000 students (2.0%) at universities
 82 800 students (2.1%) at enterprise providers.
In 2014, the majority of students undertook training in the same state or territory in which they Table 2
resided. For example:

 96.1% of students receiving training in Tasmania were residents of Tasmania
 65.6% of students receiving training in the Australian Capital Territory were residents of the
Australian Capital Territory.
In 2014, training was delivered from: Table 3
 New South Wales to 1 131 400 students (29.0%)
 Victoria to 1 052 400 students (26.9%)
 Queensland to 881 600 students (22.6%)
 Western Australia to 372 400 students (9.5%)
 South Australia to 242 200 students (6.2%)
 Australian Capital Territory to 76 800 students (2.0%)
 Tasmania to 62 900 students (1.6%)
 Northern Territory 50 300 students (1.3%)
 overseas locations to 30 900 students (0.8%).

Total VET students and courses 2014 5
Student characteristics1
In 2014, VET students comprised: Table 5
 54.8% male students
 43.0% female students
 37.3% students aged 24 years and under
 60.7% students aged 25 years and over
 3.4% students from remote and very remote localities
 3.7% Indigenous students
 5.1% students with a disability
 9.7% apprentices and trainees undertaking off-the-job training
 96.8% domestic students
 3.2% international students.

Programs
In 2014, there were 6344 unique programs or courses, of which: Table 6
 2407 courses were locally (not nationally) recognised

 2219 programs were designed to lead to a qualification specified in a national training package
 979 were nationally accredited courses
 643 were skill sets — nationally and locally recognised

 96 were higher level qualifications such as bachelor degrees.

There were 3.6 million enrolments in VET programs. Of these:
 3.1 million (86.4%) were in Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) programs Tables 7
 487 700 (13.6%) were in non-AQF programs and 8
 by program level, certificate III was the most popular with 1.1 million enrolments in programs
(30.7%)
 by field of education, management and commerce was the most popular, with 738 500
program enrolments (20.6%).
In 2014, there were 2.8 million program enrolments (77.5%) in national training packages. Of Table 9
these:
 Business Services was the most popular training package, with 420 200 program enrolments
(15.1% of all training package program enrolments)
 Community Services was the second most popular training package, with 363 700 program
enrolments (13.1%).
In 2014, there were a further 441 100 (12.3%) enrolments in nationally accredited courses. Table 8

1 Caution should be taken when using student characteristics data with a large number of ‘not known’ responses. See the
explanatory notes on page 23 for further information on the extent of ‘not known’ data for selected student characteristics.
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Subjects
In 2014:
 65.4% of subjects were delivered to students in classrooms, 10.6% were delivered Table 10
electronically and 12.6% were employment-based.
 The remaining 11.4% were delivered by other modes (such as correspondence) or were subject
enrolments with credit transfer or recognition of prior learning outcomes.
In 2014, there were 27.5 million enrolments in subjects. Of these: Table 12
 59.4% were Commonwealth or state-funded

 35.0% were fee-for-service (domestic)

 5.6% were fee-for-service (international).

Table 13
In 2014, 818.2 million hours of VET were delivered. Of these:
 65.0% were Commonwealth or state-funded
 28.5% were fee-for-service (domestic) funded
 6.5% were fee-for-service (international) funded.
In 2014, the load pass rate (a weighted subject completion rate) was: Table 14
 82.7% for Commonwealth or state-funded subjects
 85.1% for fee-for-service (domestic) subjects
 82.8% for fee-for-service (international) subjects.

Programs completed
The preliminary statistics indicate 815 600 Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) programs Table 17
were completed in 2014. Of these:
 114 500 programs (14.0%) were completed in diploma or higher qualifications
 701 100 programs (86.0%) were completed in certificates I—IV.
It is important to note that these figures are not completion rates. They are the number of
programs that were completed in 2014.

Total VET students and courses 2014 7
Tables
Table 1 Australian VET students and participation rate (%) of Australians aged 15 years and over in VET by state or
territory of student residence, 2014
State or territory of student residence
Age group NSW Vic. Qld. SA WA Tas. NT ACT Aust.
Australian VET students (’000)
15 to 19 years 249.3 196.9 178.6 37.6 84.8 16.1 6.5 10.7 803.3
20 to 24 years 148.5 154.1 122.8 38.7 57.3 11.9 8.4 10.4 565.4
25 to 44 years 377.2 375.3 337.6 100.7 166.6 29.2 26.6 24.9 1 488.4
45 to 64 years 201.4 201.9 173.8 54.3 69.0 18.9 11.2 11.0 769.7
65 years and over 14.7 17.3 7.9 4.1 2.8 0.9 0.4 0.6 50.5
15 to 64 years 976.4 928.2 812.8 231.3 377.7 76.1 52.7 57.0 3 626.9
Australian population (’000)
15 to 19 years 467.4 357.9 309.8 104.8 161.3 33.8 16.4 23.0 1 474.5
20 to 24 years 513.6 419.8 335.8 114.4 184.3 31.3 19.3 32.2 1 650.9
25 to 44 years 2 104.8 1 702.9 1 322.3 443.6 779.1 121.8 83.2 122.7 6 681.8
45 to 64 years 1 858.2 1 424.3 1 158.3 437.6 622.6 141.6 55.6 90.2 5 789.3
65 years and over 1 162.7 865.1 660.3 287.7 327.4 91.5 16.0 45.4 3 456.3
15 to 64 years 4 944.0 3 905.0 3 126.2 1 100.4 1 747.3 328.6 174.5 268.1 15 596.4
Participation rate (%)
15 to 19 years 53.3 55.0 57.7 35.9 52.6 47.8 39.8 46.7 54.5
20 to 24 years 28.9 36.7 36.6 33.8 31.1 37.8 43.4 32.2 34.3
25 to 44 years 17.9 22.0 25.5 22.7 21.4 24.0 32.0 20.3 22.3
45 to 64 years 10.8 14.2 15.0 12.4 11.1 13.3 20.1 12.2 13.3
65 years and over 1.3 2.0 1.2 1.4 0.9 0.9 2.7 1.4 1.5
15 to 64 years 19.7 23.8 26.0 21.0 21.6 23.2 30.2 21.3 23.3
For notes on tables, see the explanatory notes on pages 23-28.
Note that percentages in this publication are rounded to one decimal place. Other numbers, after aggregation, have been rounded to the nearest
hundred. Rounding can lead to situations where the numbers in the body of a given table might not add to the rounded totals. A dash (-) represents a
true zero figure, with no activity reported in these categories.
Table 2 Students by state or territory of student residence and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 (%)
State or territory of State or territory where the training was delivered
student residence NSW Vic. Qld. SA WA Tas. NT ACT Overseas Other Total
New South Wales 79.3 4.3 4.5 1.5 1.5 0.4 1.1 21.3 0.1 19.1 25.9
Victoria 3.1 84.6 2.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.8 2.2 0.1 8.9 24.4
Queensland 6.2 2.6 83.9 1.0 1.7 0.8 3.2 2.7 0.2 22.8 21.8
South Australia 1.1 1.0 0.9 83.2 0.6 0.3 0.6 0.6 0.0 7.3 6.1
Western Australia 2.3 1.6 2.3 0.6 85.6 0.3 1.3 0.7 0.4 5.8 9.8
Tasmania 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.5 96.1 0.1 0.9 0.0 3.0 2.0
Northern Territory 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 87.0 0.2 0.0 1.2 1.4
Australian Capital Territory 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 65.6 - 0.9 1.6
Overseas 3.5 2.7 2.0 1.3 2.9 0.3 0.6 1.8 98.7 27.5 3.4
Other 3.3 2.0 3.3 10.6 5.7 0.6 5.2 3.9 0.5 3.4 3.6
Total students 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
For notes on tables, see the explanatory notes on pages 23-28.
Note that percentages are reported to one decimal place. Rounding can lead to situations where the numbers in the body of a given table might not
add to the rounded totals. A dash (-) represents a true zero figure, with no activity reported in these categories.

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Table 3 Students by provider type and the state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014 (’000)
State or territory where the training was delivered
Provider type NSW Vic. Qld. SA WA Tas. NT ACT Overseas Other Total
TAFE 441.1 225.2 125.4 80.9 114.7 28.8 3.7 20.8 24.1 1.0 1 065.6
University 0.4 54.1 3.9 0.2 0.6 0.8 14.6 0.0 3.5 0.0 78.0
School 73.3 50.7 57.3 1.0 2.4 1.5 0.5 3.5 - 0.0 190.3
Community education provider 55.4 76.4 10.6 9.9 18.5 2.4 5.6 6.1 0.0 0.1 185.1
Enterprise provider 23.1 12.8 16.0 14.6 12.4 1.5 1.4 0.8 0.1 0.2 82.8
Private training provider 528.5 633.3 638.4 128.5 217.7 27.8 24.6 45.5 3.2 5.5 2 252.9
Students attending more than
one provider type 9.7 0.0 30.0 7.2 6.2 - 0.0 0.0 - 0.3 53.4
Total students 1 131.4 1 052.4 881.6 242.2 372.4 62.9 50.3 76.8 30.9 7.2 3 908.0
For notes on tables, see the explanatory notes on pages 23-28.
Note that numbers, after aggregation, have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Rounding can lead to situations where the numbers in the body of a
given table might not add to the rounded totals. A dash (-) represents a true zero figure, with no activity reported in these categories.

Table 4 Training providers by state or territory of training provider’s head office, 2014
State or territory of training provider’s head office
Provider type NSW Vic. Qld. SA WA Tas. NT ACT Other Total
TAFE 11 14 14 3 12 1 1 1 - 57
University 2 5 2 2 2 1 1 - - 15
School 14 564 330 6 21 5 3 17 - 960
Community education provider 86 303 30 35 15 11 5 13 - 497
Enterprise provider 58 43 39 20 31 9 6 8 - 210
Private training provider 741 620 805 267 316 49 32 60 2 2 865
Distinct count of training
providers 910 1 549 1 219 333 397 76 48 99 2 4 601
For notes on tables, see the explanatory notes on pages 23-28.
A dash (-) represents a true zero figure, with no activity reported in these categories.

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Table 5 Students by selected characteristics and state or territory where the training was delivered, 2014
State or territory where the training was delivered
NSW Vic. Qld. SA WA Tas. NT ACT Overseas Other Total
Student
characteristics (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) (’000) %
Sex
Males 555.6 571.2 508.2 135.2 239.9 37.0 31.4 42.7 16.6 3.9 2 141.7 54.8
Females 558.9 469.9 337.6 104.9 117.4 25.2 18.1 31.1 13.8 3.1 1 679.9 43.0
Not known 17.0 11.3 35.8 2.1 15.1 0.7 0.8 3.0 0.4 0.2 86.4 2.2
Age
14 years and under 4.4 4.9 9.1 0.5 0.9 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.0 20.9 0.5
15 to 19 years 265.5 217.7 175.8 43.7 79.6 12.4 6.2 13.1 10.1 0.9 825.1 21.1
20 to 24 years 178.1 178.2 125.0 36.7 50.1 9.4 7.1 11.9 13.8 1.7 612.1 15.7
25 to 44 years 433.1 411.9 353.1 100.1 164.0 23.7 24.6 30.6 5.5 3.1 1 549.6 39.7
45 to 64 years 210.7 214.0 179.9 55.3 69.0 16.0 10.9 15.5 1.3 1.2 773.8 19.8
65 years and over 15.1 18.0 8.1 4.5 2.8 0.7 0.4 0.9 0.0 0.0 50.6 1.3
Not known 24.6 7.6 30.6 1.3 5.8 0.5 0.6 4.7 0.2 0.2 76.0 1.9
Student remoteness
(ARIA+) region
Major cities 677.5 668.0 466.1 143.7 237.6 1.0 1.8 60.7 0.1 3.4 2 259.9 57.8
Inner regional 253.9 258.8 187.1 27.3 40.5 36.8 0.8 9.0 0.1 0.9 815.1 20.9
Outer regional 104.7 70.1 134.6 31.9 32.1 21.4 26.0 2.5 0.0 0.5 423.8 10.8
Remote 13.4 4.9 25.3 7.6 17.7 2.7 10.8 0.3 0.0 0.1 82.9 2.1
Very remote 4.9 1.2 21.6 2.7 12.6 0.3 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 51.4 1.3
Overseas 39.5 28.7 17.8 3.3 10.8 0.2 0.3 1.4 30.5 2.0 134.5 3.4
Not known 37.4 20.7 29.1 25.7 21.1 0.4 2.6 3.0 0.2 0.2 140.4 3.6
Indigenous status
Indigenous 52.3 11.9 37.9 7.8 18.0 2.7 14.0 1.7 0.0 0.1 146.5 3.7
Non-Indigenous 966.8 901.8 633.5 205.6 290.8 57.1 34.2 63.1 28.7 6.2 3 187.7 81.6
Not known 112.3 138.7 210.1 28.8 63.6 3.0 2.1 12.0 2.2 0.9 573.8 14.7
Disability (including
impairment or long-
term condition)
With a disability 54.9 67.7 34.3 20.0 12.4 4.9 2.2 4.1 0.1 0.5 201.0 5.1
Without a disability 864.9 874.0 608.1 215.4 274.0 55.0 43.8 56.9 27.5 5.8 3 025.5 77.4
Not known 211.6 110.8 239.2 6.8 86.1 3.0 4.2 15.8 3.3 0.9 681.5 17.4
School status
At school 162.7 103.1 108.3 19.0 44.3 7.1 3.4 7.2 0.1 0.3 455.5 11.7
Not at school 866.2 821.9 606.2 203.3 281.4 52.9 42.6 57.9 27.3 6.2 2 965.9 75.9
Not known 102.5 127.4 167.1 19.9 46.7 2.9 4.3 11.7 3.5 0.7 486.6 12.5
Apprentice/trainee
status
Apprentices and
trainees undertaking
off-the-job training 86.7 122.1 90.7 8.9 49.7 11.7 4.4 6.5 - 0.4 381.0 9.7
Not apprentices and
trainees 1 044.7 930.3 790.9 233.3 322.7 51.2 45.9 70.3 30.9 6.8 3 527.1 90.3
SEIFA (IRSD)
Quintile 1 – Most
disadvantaged 277.0 198.6 177.0 60.5 38.5 29.6 12.2 4.2 0.0 1.0 798.5 20.4
Quintile 2 273.3 211.7 163.7 62.4 64.0 10.6 12.0 5.0 0.0 1.1 803.8 20.6
Quintile 3 192.1 224.9 203.2 35.0 83.3 10.2 3.8 7.0 0.1 1.0 760.5 19.5
Quintile 4 152.2 232.4 183.7 35.6 72.8 10.0 10.6 18.4 0.1 1.0 716.7 18.3
Quintile 5 – Least
disadvantaged 157.6 135.1 106.6 19.6 81.2 1.8 8.6 37.1 0.0 0.8 548.5 14.0
Not known 79.1 49.7 47.4 29.1 32.7 0.6 3.2 5.1 30.6 2.2 279.9 7.2
Student status
Domestic students 1 092.8 1 024.3 866.5 239.0 364.0 62.7 50.0 75.6 1.1 5.2 3 781.4 96.8
International students 38.6 28.1 15.0 3.1 8.4 0.2 0.2 1.3 29.8 1.9 126.6 3.2
Total students 1 131.4 1 052.4 881.6 242.2 372.4 62.9 50.3 76.8 30.9 7.2 3 908.0 100.0
For notes on tables, see the explanatory notes on pages 23-28. SEIFA = Socio-Economic Indexes For Areas; IRSD = Index of Relative Socio-
economic Disadvantage.
Note that percentages in this publication are rounded to one decimal place. Other numbers, after aggregation, have been rounded to the nearest
hundred. Rounding can lead to situations where the numbers in the body of a given table might not add to the rounded totals. A dash (-) represents a
true zero figure, with no activity reported in these categories.

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