The purpose of this study was to examine the recent reforms of vocational education and training in Australia and to provide the implications and suggestions needed to take with these reforms in Korean vocational education and training policies. Primary responsibility for the delivery of VET and the regulation of VET sector in Australia rests with the States and Territories. The Commonwealth plays an important role in education and training policy and programmes. In recent years that role has focussed increasingly on promoting national consistency and coherence in provision of education and training and developing a more demand-driven VET system. Especially, the most recent reforms, such as New Apprenticeships, the National Training Framework, Training packages and Australian Qualification Framework, introduce further improvements to the VET system to provide more flexibility and responsiveness. These flexibilities include greater scope for customization of training, greater competition through user choice arrangements, school-based new apprenticeships. VET in Australia is a wide-ranging sector operating through a variety of providers including publicly funded TAFE colleges, adult and community education organizations, private sector training organizations and enterprises and schools. Some contemporary trends in Australian vocational education and training provide some suggestions that Korean government need to develop VET system more responsive to the needs of industry and more nationally consistent for National human resources development.
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