Each year AVETRA members around Australia organise community research events to showcase VET research. These activities complement and extend the AVETRA annual conference. These locally convened events are often, but not always, held in October – hence OctoberVET! They aim to engage local VET researchers and practitioners in discussions about recent and topical research. The events are generally half or full day duration.

AVETRA OctoberVET aims to:

• Broaden the activity of AVETRA beyond one annual event in one Australian location.
• Provide State or Territory-based forums for discussion and presentation of national research approximately six months either side of the major annual conference.
• Provide a forum for presentation of State/Territory -based research and discussion of emerging local and national research and research issues.
• Provide opportunities for State and Territory-based VET research stakeholders and AVETRA members to network, including the possible development of special and local interest groups.

 OctoberVET 2010

If you are thinking of organising an OctoberVET event for 2010, please see the information below for details.  Please note the dates by which you should organise your events to ensure that we can publicise your event via the web page.

• OctoberVET 2010 Convenor Information
• OctoberVET 2010 Convenor Pack Sample forms