TAFE cuts hit Ballarat hard

Dual-sector University of Ballarat will terminate up to 60 TAFE courses and a large number of staff in the wake of the Victorian government’s plan to slash nearly $300 million from public providers. The university says it is the latest casualty of the budget cuts, which it estimates will cost it $19 million, or 40 per cent of its TAFE budget, to the end of 2013.