Centre for the Economics of Education & Training (CEET)

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CEET is the only centre for the economics of education and training in Australia. A well established research centre, its structure is unique involving two faculties at Monash University -- Education and Business & Economics -- and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

CEET's structure allows team research with a wide disciplinary mix and access to an array of different networks of researchers, policy makers and practioners. Find out more About CEET.

CEET Noticeboard...updates on CEET activities

CEET Annual Conference Friday 29 October 2010 at Ascot House

2009 NCVER VET Researcher of the Year Award
Chris Selby Smith has been posthumously awarded the 2009 VET Researcher of the Year. Chris, who died in September 2007, had been a very active researcher and policy advisor for over 40 years. He was a founding Director of the Monash University – ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) and was widely known for his research on areas such as user choice, costs of training, impact of research, and funding for students with a disability. The award was presented at the Australian Training Awards on 19 November by Tom Karmel (Managing Director of NCVER) and accepted by his Chris’s wife, Joy Selby Smith. This is only the second time the award has been made. Read more on the NCVER VET Researcher of the Year Award page.

Presentations

Gerald Burke presented 'Issues and Funding in VET' (333 kb) at Victoria and South Australia Group Training Conference in Mt Gambia on 4 June 2009
Gerald Burke presented a paper at the Regional Meeting on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications in the Asia-Pacific Region on 6-7 May 2009 in Manila entitled 'Development of National Qualification Frameworks' (66 kb)
Gerald Burke presented 'Mapping qualification frameworks across APEC economies' at the Internationial seminar on sharing CET/TVET systems and qualification frameworks among APEC economies, Richmonde Hotel, Manila 21-23 October 2009
Trish Corrie and Phillip McKenzie presented a paper at the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) National Conference, 'The Destinations of Victorian School Leavers: Key Findings from the On Track Project on 15-17 April 2009 in Melbourne (79 kb)
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 2008 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 Future' (154 kb)

Recent publications and reports on the CEET website
TAFE funding and the education targets, Michael Long
Burke, G, McKenzie, P, Shah, C, Keating, J, Vickers, A, Fearnside, R & Bateman, A 2009 'Mapping Qualifications Frameworks across APEC Economies' Report for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
A Stocktake of Social Inclusion in VET and Higher Education, Fran Ferrier, Michael Long & Sue North
Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Research in Australian 2008-09, Sue North & Fran Ferrier
The value of the intellectual capital created by The Learning Federation digital curriculum content initiative, Fran Ferrier & Michael Long
The returns to jurisdictions from their participation in The Learning Federation and options for future funding, Michael Long, Sue North & Gerald Burke
Feasibility study - Establishing a national centre for pedagogy, John Loughran, Amanda Berry, Allie Clemans, Greg Lancaster and Michael Long
How young indigenous people are faring, Key indicators 1996-2006, Michael Long
University IT graduates for ICT occupations in Victoria 2008 to 2022 Chandra Shah, Gerald Burke and Sue North
Vocational education and training providers in competitive training markets Fran Ferrier, Tom Dumbrell and Gerald Burke. Interview with Fran Ferrier about this report
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 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, Ferrier, F and Heagney, M (eds)

Working papers

66. Shah, C 2009, Determinants of job separation and occupational mobility in Australia

Seminars

March 18, 2009 - Social inclusion in higher education and VET, Fran Ferrier and Sue North, Presentation Slides (ppt 287kb)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. Presentation slides (ppt 2071kb)
April 11, 2008 - The German "transition system": the role of full-time vocational schools, Thomas Deissinger, University of Konstanz, Germany