People with a disability in vocational education and training: a statistical compendium

作者：Tony Cavallaro, Paul Foley, John Saunders, Kaye Bowman · 发表于：National Centre for Vocational Education Research · 年份：2005 · 被引用次数：34 · 研究领域：Education Systems and Policy

This statistical compendium examines, firstly, vocational education and training (VET) students with a disability as a whole group, focusing on their participation levels, achievements and outcomes from VET, and identifies gaps and/or issues with the existing data. This is followed by a section dealing with people with different types of disabilities and a conclusion. The appendix contains detailed profiles, which can stand alone as fact sheets, for each disability type: physical disability, medical condition, vision disability, learning disability, hearing disability, intellectual disability, mental illness, acquired brain impairment, and other/unspecified disabilities. Also included is a profile on Indigenous people with a disability. Key messages include: people with a disability, one of the five recognised equity groups in VET, as a whole, have the lowest levels of educational achievement and employment outcomes from VET; as a whole, people with a disability are less likely to undertake/attain higher-level Australian Qualifications Framework qualifications and are more likely to undertake/achieve certificate I or II qualifications; type of disability does matter with educational achievements and outcomes varying significantly between disability groups, suggesting that different strategies may be necessary for different groups of people with a disability in VET; and of all disability types, VET students with hearing or vision disabilities have the highest probability of pa...