The Joyce Review of VET: good summary, incomplete analysis, solutions need a rework

Craig FowlerOctober 9, 2019Last Updated: October 14, 2019

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Steven Joyce, former NZ Tertiary Education Skills and Employment Minister who reviewed the vocational education system for the Morrison government. Photo: John Feder/The Australian

First Ministers met at COAG and agreed to a new Vision for Vocational Education and Training (VET) for Australia. The impetus for this was the Australian Government announcing its Skills Package Delivering Skills for Today and Tomorrow in its 2019/20 budget, responding to the Strengthening Skills: Expert Review of Australia’s VET System – the Joyce Review (‘Review’). First Ministers reaffirmed their shared responsibility for VET and its equal and complementary status to Higher Education (HE) as a vital part of Australia’s post schooling ‘tertiary’ system and formed (another) VET-purposed COAG Ministerial Council.

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