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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VET certification standards differ greatly from university. Students qualify for diplomas with no set course length, assignments, or campus contact.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Within a few months of coming to office the Abbott government established a Vocational and Education and Training (VET) Reform Taskforce. Over the past two years there have been three separate parliamentary…
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