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Federal Labor is promising to cover the cost of 465,000 TAFE places, including 45,000 new places. But there’s a chronic shortage of VET teachers and trainers, so that problem has to be fixed first. 
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Labor is promising to make TAFE free for critical jobs across a range of sectors, as well as funding more university places if it wins the next election.
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David Reeves was duped into an expensive student loan - and the time for victims to have such loans cancelled is running out.
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Selective colleges and their leafy residential campuses are nice, but in these pandemic times, community colleges are coming into the spotlight. With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills.
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The first six months of semester one, 2020 has certainly been a memorable one for everyone. Almost overnight, COVID-19 transformed how we live, how we work, and how we learn. Consequently, we have all had to think differently about our operations and find new, more agile ways of working and delivering training.
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Despite the Prime Minister's plans for a skills-led COVID-19 economic recovery, Australia's biggest and oldest vocational education provider has had courses and budgets slashed, a new survey finds, with students saying it resembles a "ghost town".
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Through three case studies we see how CIT staff and students are responding to COVID-19 and adapting to their new learning environment.
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Consensus is the new way forward for certain public policy, it seems. While business, unions and government will come together to start the industrial relations journey, the template for vocational education seems to be largely set. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is attracted to the national hospital agreement as the template for vocational education and training (VET). This would see “national efficient pricing” and “activity-based funding” as models for VET. It’s a good starting point but it has its limits. We have seen first-hand in recent months the benefits of strong public hospitals. Resources were able to be turned to the COVID crisis. Rapid investments were made safe in the knowledge that resources could be diverted to other health services once the crisis eased. TAFEs are the public hospitals of vocational education. Australia has experimented far too long with the folly that free markets do an efficient job in allocating government resources for skills and training. Too much public administration is tied up in defining training requirements and assuring that money is well spent because of a deep distrust in the ability of markets to deliver. The Morrison government is still cleaning up the VET FEE-HELP mess, unleashed through a blind faith in the idea of quality arising from the competitive forces of the VET market.
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There are five transitions young people aged 16-25 make between school and employment. Most involve some vocational education and training. Some involve university and others no education at all.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, TAFE NSW, in conjunction with the NSW Government, is offering a number of fee-free* short courses that can be completed in just days or weeks, offering practical skills and experiences across a range of industries.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Great leadership shown by @tafensw to assist people to keep learning in these restricted times. Well done!
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A review into the NSW vocational training sector will look at introducing shorter more targeted courses to more quickly meet changing industry demands.
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Victorian universities have suffered a slump in applications from school leavers this year, with education experts saying many have been lured by the Andrews government’s free TAFE program.
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A new vocational course will help equip Liverpool’s future workforce with essential skills as plans get underway to create a world-class health and education precinct in the city centre.
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The following year, Mr Jelley moved into the Holmesglen TAFE Education First Youth Foyer, one of three foyers operating at TAFE campuses in Glen Waverley, Broadmeadows and Shepparton.
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The head of the industry body that represents the nation's TAFEs has described the system as "broken" and says serious reform is needed.
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Many African parents push their children to go to university regardless of their preparedness or interest. But more find happiness and success in VET.
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Australia Institute report says system generates $90bn in economic benefits annually and well-funded Tafe is essential for delivering the workforce needed for post-Covid reconstruction
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Scott Morrison will announce a jobtrainer scheme to reskill workers who have lost jobs in the Covid-19 recession
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Victoria's free TAFE program will be expanded, with 10,000 more places created in fields the Victorian government says will help the state recover from COVID-19.
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A Productivity Commission report has found the skills sector is "underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches".
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The education union says the boom, coupled with the expected hike in practical courses after the pandemic, shows the government must fix a shortage of teachers.
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TAFE NSW has introduced 13 new fee-free short courses online to help anyone in the state who wants to upskill during the COVID-19 pandemic. The move follow
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The state government faced questions on Wednesday about a proposal to share TAFE facilities with other non-government skills providers.
Peter Mellow's insight:
I'm all for using facilities when they are not being used. I've seen a lot of waste in the tertiary sector in the past 30 years, but having building sitting empty for multiple hours a day and over most weekends and months at a time during study breaks does my head in. Yes, as a service to the community, if the users pay some rent to cover maintenance. However I can see how brands could blur and a private provider might get more validity if they use a TAFE campus. Careful progress needs to be considered.
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The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) is the national regulator for Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) sector.
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TAFE NSW, a vocational education and training provider for professionals in New South Wales, has in the space of 14 months spent over $6 million on external consultants, sparking criticism at a time
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