Enrolments were up last year with 5 per cent more students enrolled in government-funded voced course than in 2020, to just under 1.2m

The data is in a new report from the estimable National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

TAFE was steady (down 2.7 per cent) to 652 900 students while private providers were up 19 per cent to 434 600.

Student numbers continued to grow off the 2018 bottom (1.13m) to 1.25m last year.