Demands on VET teachers are increasing as work changes, skill requirements increase, new industries emerge, society becomes more complex, and VET is called upon to deliver more ambitious government objectives, which include increasing the level of participation by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. VET qualifications will need to ensure that students have language, literacy and numeracy skills, ‘green skills’, and the knowledge and skills they need for lifelong learning and for their working lives and to participate in their communities. The educational purposes of VET will need to be emphasised to a greater extent if we are to achieve VET’s vocational purposes.