Elevating the profession

Will a tertiary sector impact positively on VET practitioners, asks John Mitchell.

There is a light flickering on the horizon that offers a way out of some tangled debates in VET. That light is the emerging tertiary system in Australia, and it represents the removal of barriers between VET and higher education and the creation of one seamless post-compulsory education sector. That light will eventually take attention away from endless debates such as whether VET practitioners are professionals or not. Eventually everyone teaching in the tertiary sector will be encouraged to become a professional tertiary educator. The arrival of a tertiary system will end the debate about...