Educational Leadership

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.

TAFE NSW will deliver a Statement of Attainment in Medical Administration for 21 students from John Edmondson, Ashcroft and Miller high schools.

The course aims to create a pipeline of skilled workers with the anticipated growth of the city’s health and education sector.

Year 10 students will learn practical skills such as labelling specimen samples, ordering medical equipment, using a blood pressure machine and assessing patients in a new simulated medical surgery at TAFE NSW’s Liverpool campus.

According to a confidential report, Australia’s largest private training college raked in hundreds of millions in public money before its collapse, despite abysmal completion rates. A senior figure in the sector fears it could happen again.

Teachers at TAFE campuses in Sydney and regional NSW say they have had to bring their own toilet paper to work and staff are having to barter for stationery.

One minister's crack linking TAFE and basket-weaving suggests snooty middle-class attitudes towards technical education haven’t gone all that far away.

New analysis of education expenditure shows spending on the vocational education and training sector has declined while other sectors have experienced growth.

TAFE NSW managing director Jon Black criticises federal policies and calls for an increase in funding and a shift in social attitudes towards technical training.

While spending has grown for preschools, schools and universities, vocational education misses out.

Teachers say he is comparing education to shopping for washing powder.

A consultancy giant was paid $1.4 million to "assess the role and purpose of TAFE NSW".

The NSW Skills Minister has called on the federal government to extend the HECS tertiary loan system to TAFE.

National Centre for Vocational Education Research
Informing and influencing the Australian VET sector

At a convention in Traverse City, Michigan, educators discussed the future of local institutions.

STUDY at university and end up with a useless degree and big debts, TAFE boss Jon Black will tell career advisers as he declares war on his tertiary rivals.

VET certification standards differ greatly from university. Students qualify for diplomas with no set course length, assignments, or campus contact.

New research shows private VET providers are ill-equipped to tackle the learning needs of vulnerable young people, who are increasingly being enrolled onto these training courses.