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For-profit VET funding not paying off, report states
VET leaders have defended the sector following the release of a highly critical report.
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Whoever opened this market up, needs to take responsibility for this mess. Education should ideally be fully funded by government and fully controlled by them as well. Private education establishments with their own assessments and issue of certificates is so open to abuse that anyone approving setting it up must have seen the possibilities for rorts. Name the culprits.
The greatest frustration for those of us in Voc. Ed/TAFE at the time knew this was predictable and predicted when privatisation of education was first mooted. Education and learning is not a product. The trainees/learners have direct input to achieve the outcomes – it can’t be purchased. Vocational education and training has been around since the Mechanics Institutes and Technical Schools System – back in the 1800s. Though the name changed, it is the more recent market model and privatisation of the last decades that stopped VET working. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is reported publically.
https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/36092
With every free trade agreement signed Governments lose control over the economy as so in turn implements Education Reform to redeem lost influence. The truth is these reforms are not in education but in economics. Smart and skilled in NSW will take years to implement because is a cost cutting exercise that will not reform teaching practice but cause educators to squander time and effort on distracting programs