AVETRA Conference 2009

The 12th Annual Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Conference will take place in Sydney on Thursday and Friday April 16th and 17th 2009, with a welcome event on Wednesday evening April 15th. Abstracts are to be submitted by Friday November 28th 2008.

Details  on the annual conference web page.

Dr Ray Barker AVETRA Research Fellowships

You are invited to apply for a Ray Barker AVETRA Ambassador Award of $1500. The objective of the AVETRA ambassadors award is to provide opportunities for members to undertake activities that improve their research capacity, assist build an understanding of VET research in their communities or to conduct some events that build awareness and involvement of AVETRA members. For further details click here.

AVETRA Journal Rankings

AVETRA has undertaken a quality rating of VET and adult education journals. This exercise was prompted by the Government's Research Quality Framework which has now become the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative.  AVETRA was able to rank 22 journals whose editors provided copies of their journals.  Follow the links for the process and the ranking table

HISTORY OF AVETRA RELEASED MAY 2008

AVETRA's history from 1997-2007 has been recorded by Cydde Miller. This project is one of the fellowships generously funded by Dr Ray Barker, a Life Member of AVETRA.

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