This research overview summarizes the work undertaken by Kaye Bowman and Suzy McKenna in exploring jurisdictional approaches to the implementation of student entitlements to vocational skills training, a key reform initiative in the National Partnership Agreement on Skills Reform (NPASR) of 2012-16. The overview is a condensed summary of three related papers, the first being a description of the recent evolution of a national training system, the second a detailed description and analysis on the manner in which student entitlements have been implemented by the states and territories, and, thirdly, the reflective opinions of informed experts on these issues. It highlights similarities and differences in the implementation of student entitlements and, pieced together, it examines the balance between the consistency of the national policy approach and practised jurisdictional flexibility, and the consequences for the longer-term objectives of the national training system. [For the reports summarized in this research overview, see ED563482, ED563486, and ED563483.]