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VET turmoil is a Shakespearean drama of villains and tragic heroes
Recent history provides the ingredients for a racy tale about a sector with a tragic flaw.
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I agree, John. Looking forward to the movie. I haven’t found any substantial evidence to support the last 20 years of the VET System design other than corporate/business speak and spin-doctoring. Not one shred of educational theory or practice that backs it up. However, I am still open to being shown that. Usually what I get is – corporate speak and spin-doctoring. Besides thousands of students being duped, trainers and employers have also been exploited by the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Trainers think they are part of an education fraternity which they are not – the minimum qualification they need is more about being controlled, complying with bureaucracy and compliance with CBT and Training Packages. Having worked and been associated with TAFE and VET since the ’80s, I am aghast how nothing has been addressed in a substantial way as the policy, educational and systematic flaws were found and made public by many commentators and experts.
A great article John
I agree, but only up to a point. As one of the people who created the national approach to VET back in the 90s I am (still) concerned that the majority of commentary on the failure of the VET system is due a lack of understanding about what VET is, what its purpose is, and why the competency-based approach to VET was adopted in the first place. The current approach to VET is not, nor was ever intended to be, another way of viewing the gap between senior secondary school and university or the workplace. It was intended as an holistic view of the world of work and the competence required of those performing functions within the workplace (of all ilks) in order to achieve national, economic and business objectives. It was also a way of viewing how education and training potentially (but not totally) enabled such competent performance.
In-depth analysis is commendable. Would love to see this movie