New NCVER Publications

Building organisational capability the private provider way by Hugh Guthrie

Combining formal, non-formal and informal learning for workforce skill development by Josie Misko

Cross-cultural training and workplace performance by Robert Bean

Human resource management in Australian registered training organisations by Andrew Smith and Geof Hawke

Investigating learning through work: The development of the Provider Learning Environment Scale by Clive Chappell and Geof Hawke

Making decisions about workforce development in registered training organisations by Geof Hawke

A study in difference: Structures and cultures in Australian registered training organisations by Berwyn Clayton, Thea Fisher, Roger Harris, Andrea Bateman and Mike Brown

To have and to hold: Retaining and utilising skilled people by Andrew Smith, Eddie Oczkowski and Chris Selby Smith

Visions and options: A report on five forums introducing the research consortium on building VET provider capability by Berwyn Clayton and Pauline Robinson


Skilling Australia: Our apprenticeship challenge by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

This podcast features a panel discussion recorded by the ABC at NCVER’s August 2008 forum Apprenticeships: Sustaining Australia’s skills base in Melbourne. The ABC’s Peter Mares chaired the session on Australia’s skilling issues with panellists Neil Gow, Master Builders Australia, John Hart, Restaurant and Catering Australia, Linda Heron, Heron Human Resources and Peter Tighe, Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union. It was broadcast on October 3, 2008 as an episode of ABC Radio National’s, The National Interest.