Recent publications

 

John Mitchell is a prolific writer and has authored numerous national VET reports on innovation, networking, leadership, strategic management, change management and professional development. He was a Principal Researcher for the NCVER consortium program on building the capabilities of RTOs.

For instance, since 2006 his publications related to VET workforce development include:

  • Quality is the Key: critical issues in teaching, learning and assessment in VET (lead author, NCVER, 2006)

  • Ideas for Practitioners (available from IBSA, 2006)

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship in VET ( IBSA, 2007)

  •  New Leadership for Innovative Organisations (lead author, IBSA, 2007)

  • Human Capital Enhanced by VET (DEST, 2007)

  •  Overcoming ‘I’m too busy’: an audit of small business training in WA (WA DET, 2007)

  • Productivity and Participation Enhanced by VET (DEEWR, 2008)

  •  Women’s Leadership in VET (IBSA, 2008)

  • ‘Improving Practice in Australia's Vocational Education and Training Sector through Communities of Practice’, lead author of chapter in Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators (Volume 1, Information Age Publishing, London, pp.127-140, 2008)

  •  ‘Business Skills for Managing Flexible Learning’, chapter in International Handbook of Distance Education (Emerald, United Kingdom, pp.783-802, 2008)

  • Improving the bottom line. Why industry values partnerships with TAFE NSW (NSW TAFE, release date 22 Sept 2008)

  • Confident RPL assessors (QLD DETA, 2008). Part A. Part B. Part C.

  • Approaches for sustaining and building management and leadership capability in VET providers (second author, NCVER, 2007)

  •  Advanced Practitioners in VET (IBSA, February 2009)

  • Authentic, sustainable leadership in VET ( IBSA, October 2008).

  • Challenger Impact Model (Challenger TAFE, March 2009)

  • Reinvention through Innovation (West Coast TAFE, July 2009)

  • "Maximising your doctorate in consultancy work", chapter in Denholm, C. & Evans, T. (2009) Beyond Doctorates Downunder, ACER Press, Melbourne. 

  • Appreciative Inquiry Builds Capability, DEEWR, 2009

  • Most Significant Change Technique and the National Training System: Core Ideas, DEEWR, 2008

  • Enterprises enhanced by VET, DEEWR, 2008

  • Productivity and Participation Enhanced by VET, DEEWR, 2008

  • Action Learning and the National Training System: Core Ideas, DEEWR, 2008

  • Communities of Practice and the National Training System: Core Ideas, DEST, 2007

  • Appreciative Inquiry and the National Training System: Core Ideas, DEEWR, 2008

In the last five years he has written over 250 weekly articles for his column in Campus Review called ‘Inside VET’, focusing on new ideas, trends and developments in VET.

Broad selection of our published work

The links below will take you to a broad selection of our recently published work.