Opinion: VET Student Loans in need of consultation and a clear destination

The last decade has been turbulent for the VET sector. Funding arrangements and the regulatory environment have changed constantly, with little time to assess and refine the latest innovation or find out whether it was of benefit to citizens, business or the economy. In some cases, failure was manifest and we watched governments do a 180-degree turn and plummet blindly in the other direction. It is no way to run the country’s VET sector.