Tertiary teaching workforce in need of national strategy

Skills Australia’s national workforce development strategy finds that the tertiary education teaching workforce needs its own development strategy.

Julia Gillard will put the vocational education and training sector front and centre of the next stage of the education revolution if the key recommendations from last week's Workforce Development Strategy are adopted. The long-awaited report from Skills Australia champions a 3 per cent expansion of the tertiary education sector per year until 2020 if Australia is to meet the participation and literacy targets set out in the report. Crucially, the report recommends that a workforce development strategy for tertiary education teachers is essential if the government is to meet key targets. "We...