Australian VET: a case of missing competence

Abstract

This detective-historian account by a grass root operator considers what has happened to the ANTA perspective on VET since that entity was subsumed. By following different changes in Government focus, in training and assessment Training Packages and in language, a view emerges of the current position of competence in Australia—a view of a VET sector not sitting as comfortably as it did in the 1980s. A VET sector without identifiable leadership or certainty.