Centre for the Economics of Education & Training (CEET)

CEET 12th National Conference 2008

CEET seminar November 26, 2008 - see information below

Senior Research Fellow position available at ACER - Advertisement attached

Gerald Burke has been appointed a member of Skills Australia, an independent body established under the Skills Australia Act 2008 to provide advice to the Australian Government on Australia's emerging and future workforce development and skill needs. 

Peter Noonan, an Associate of CEET, has been appointed to The Higher Education Review Expert Panel which is to consider the issues and challenges facing the Australian Higher Education Sector and report later this year.

Presentations

• Gerald Burke presented a paper 'Assessing education and training requirements against uncertain trends in the labour force' (154 kb) Presentation (145 kb) at the ACER Research Conference Touching the Future: Building skills for life and work'held 10 - 12 August in Brisbane
• A paper written by Gerald Burke and Peter Noonan was presented at the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training CEDEFOP Agora Conference held on 19-20 May 2008 in Thessaloniki, Greece entitled 'Financing Vocational Education and Training in Australia: Present and Furture' (154 kb)
• Gerald Burke presented a paper at the Melbourne Institute Conference Our Schools ......... our Future held on 15 November 2007 entitled  'Finance and the performance of schools' (149 kb)
• A paper written by Gerald Burke and Phillip Mckenzie was presented at the International Conference on Universal Quality School Education in New Delhi, by Gerald Burke entitled 'Economics of quality schooling' (179 kb)

Recent publications and reports on the CEET website

• Vocational education and training providers in competitive training markets Fran Ferrier, Tom Dumbrell and Gerald Burke
• Approaches to measuring and understanding employer training expenditure Andrew Smith, Gerald Burke, Tom Dumbrell and Michael Long
• Outreach: A local response to new imperatives for Australian universities Fran Ferrier, Margaret Heagney and Michael Long 2008 (in press)  Ferrier, F and Heagney M  (eds) Higher Education in diverse communities, Global perspectives, Local initiatives, European Access Network (London) and the Higher Education Authority of Ireland.
• Diploma and Advanced Diploma Qualifications in the Community Services and Health Industries Gerald Burke, Andrew Smith, Tom Dumbrell and Michael Long
• Interfirm cooperation in training Richard Cooney and Mike Long
• Private returns to vocational education and training qualifications  Mike Long and Chandra Shah
• Effective skills development for a diverse older workforce Fran Ferrier, Gerald Burke and Chris Selby Smith
• Industry demand for higher education graduates in Victoria 2008-2022 Chandra Shah, Lenore Cooper and Gerald Burke
• Recognition of skills and qualifications: labour mobility and trade in services Chandra Shah, Michael Long, and Joel Windle
• Parents Returning to work: Evaluation of Grant Recipient Outcomes 2004-05, 2005-06  Fran Ferrier, Peter Kellock and Gerald Burke
• Qualifications and the furture labour market in Australia  Chandra Shah and Gerald Burke
• How young people are faring 2006, Key Indicators  Mike Long
• Stay, play or give it away  Mike Long, Fran Ferrier and Margaret Heagney
• The Flipside of Gen Y  Mike Long
  

Seminars

• November 26, 2008 - The destinations of Victorian school leavers: Key findings from the On Track  project, Trish Corrie, Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Phillip McKenzie, Australian Council for Educational Research
• April 11, 2008 - The German "transition system": the role of full-time vocational schools, Thomas Deissinger, University of Konstanz, Germany
• May 16, 2007 - Lifelong Learning, education and training policy in Europe,  David White, European Commission, Presentation slides (ppt 483kb)
• May 7, 2007 - Workplace learning in context: How organisations and individuals intersect,   Helen Rainbird, University of Birmingham, UK, Presentation slides (ppt 111kb)
• April 13, 2007 - VET Developments in the United States,   Norton Grubb, University of California, Berkeley
• March 6, 2007 - Integrating refugees into employment - European experience,   Richard Pearson, Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, Presentation slides and audio available here
• February 26, 2007 - European approaches to competence development,   Jonathon Winterton, Toulouse Business School, France, Presentation slides (ppt 225kb)

Latest Working Paper

• #65: Shah, C & Long, M 2007,Labour mobility and mutual recognition of skills and qualifications: European Union and Australia/New Zealand (pdf 182kb)