VET & TAFE
No going back on VET change
The statistics speak for themselves, private providers in Victoria are successfully expanding access to vocational education and training and now handle 40 per cent of subsidised students. In 2008, the Victorian government initiated what it termed “skills reform” in the vocational education and training (VET) sector, aimed at increasing the uptake of training and widen and deepen the stock of skills in the Victorian economy .
Please login below to view content or subscribe now.
Failures of quality and standards are rife in Victoria’s vocational education as a result of making public subsidies available at private for profit providers without adequate assurance of quality.
Even were those failures of quality and standards mostly stopped there would still be a significant difference between public and private providers. The surplus from a public provider builds a resource available to the public, while the surplus from a private for profit provider is expropriated by the provider’s owners for their own private interests.
Cresp is either ignorant or disengenous in claiming that TAFEs use a “one size fits all” delivery model. Any one who has taught in a public RTO over the last decade would know that this is rot.