Description
This report investigates linkages between adult community education (ACE) and mainstream vocational education and training (VET) which enable people to move from ACE to mainstream VET. In examining the linkages, the research also examined other related issues including: *the awareness of industry, the mainstream VET sector and the community of ACE and ACE VET *the attitudes of industry, the mainstream VET sector and the community to ACE provision of vocational learning *ways in which promotion of ACE VET and ACE VET-mainstream VET linkages might be developed or improved *implications, both for ACE and mainstream VET, of increased vocational provision by the ACE sector *directions ACE providers might consider in relation to future provision of vocational learning.
Summary
Executive summary
Objectives
The study was primarily designed to investigate and report on linkages between adult community education (ACE) and mainstream vocational education and training (VET) which enable people to move between the two sectors in their pursuit of vocational learning. The two most important aspects of linkages studied were the state of existing linkages between ACE VET and mainstream VET, and ways in which they might be improved or new ones developed. The focus was predominantly on linkages that enable people to move from ACE to mainstream VET rather than from mainstream VET to ACE.
In examining the linkages, the research also touched on a series of other important related issues including:
- the awareness of industry, the mainstream VET sector and the community of ACE and ACE VET
- the attitudes of industry, the mainstream VET sector and the community to ACE provision of vocational learning
- ways in which promotion of ACE VET and ACE VET - mainstream VET linkages might be developed or improved
- implications, both for ACE and mainstream VET, of increased vocational provision by the ACE sector
- directions ACE providers might consider in relation to future provision of vocational learning