Biography

John McIntyre is a research and policy consultant in the field of adult learning in Australia. He is a member and in 2007 the interim Chair of the NSW Board of Adult and Community Education. Since 2005 he has been a Visiting Research Fellow with Adult Learning Australia advising on its policy research program and publications. He is an Honorary Associate of the University of Technology Sydney. Download brief CV.   

Until 2001, he worked at the University of Technology Sydney where he was a senior researcher and later Director of the UTS Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training and member of the university's key research group in adult and vocational learning (later the Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning, OVAL).

He has conducted a range of research for government in the fields of adult and vocational learning, including research for the Australian National Training Authority, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research, the NSW Board of Adult and Community Education, the Victorian Adult Community and Further Education Board and the West Australian Department of Training. His PhD (by publication) was based on his research on policy, provision and participation in ACE. 

His particular interest has been in mapping ACE and VET participation by postcode in urban areas.

Selected VET research

Understanding equity strategies of training providers (with Volkoff, Egg and Solomon) National Centre for Vocational Education and Training, Adelaide, 2004, 94pp. See NCVER site.

Early school leavers at risk (McIntyre, Sweet, Melville, Schwenke & Freeland NCVER 1998). See NCVER site for overview.

Participation studies
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TAFE and ACE participation in Melbourne postcodes (2001). AVETRA conference paper, 240Kb.

TAFE participation in Sydney postcodes (1999). AVETRA conference paper, 240Kb.

Equity and local participation: policy critique and research directions (2000 journal article).

Urban disadvantage, VET participation and achievement, (2000). UTS RCVET Working Paper 0032.

Applying SEIFA disadvantage indexes to VET participation (2000). UTS RCVET Working Paper 0031.

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Recent work
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Adult learning and the ageing population, a policy briefing paper for Adult Learning Australia. Summary and full report available from ALA site or JAMC site

NEW! The ACE Research Archive project. Electronic versions of significant research reports on adult community education that have only been available in hard copy. See available documents.

Understanding equity strategies of training providers (with Volkoff, Egg and Solomon) National Centre for Vocational Education and Training, Adelaide, 2004, 94pp. See NCVER site.

Information about the consultation paper Adult Learning in Australia: you can too, to Commonwealth Dept of Education, Science and Training. See DEST site

Research in adult education (with N Grudens Schuck) in Foley, G. ed. Dimensions of Adult Learning. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2004.

Selected papers and reports on ACE
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Archive material: PDF of ACE Works: The vocational outcomes of ACE courses (McIntyre, Foley, Morris & Tennant 1996, 2Mb). (12 October 2005).

Archive material: PDF of Planning Pathways for Women from ACE to VET (McIntyre and Kimberley 1997, 2Mb). (6 December 2005).

Archive material: PDF of The Vocational Scope of ACE (McIntyre, Morris & Tennant 1993, 3 Mb). (6 January 2006).

The Economics of ACE Delivery (McIntyre, Brown and Ferrier 1997, 2Mb).  

Who are Australia's adult learners? National survey of adult learning, 1995 (234Kb PDF). Download from ALA site,

The discursive construction of adult community education in national policy, Aust J Adult learning, 41(1), April 2001)

Policy symbolism and economic realities: ACE, equity and the market (1998, 52Kb).

Restructuring adult education: research, policy and the state (1999, 40Kb).

Where Do Australians Learn? (for Adult Learning Australia, 2003, Download report from ALA site, 119Kb PDF).

Research and policy

See JAMC site for selected papers on adult learning research and policy.