VET & TAFE
Market more important than outcomes
By focusing on the business of vocational education and training, rather than good training, we are devaluing a once strong system.
The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained that private providers were on the ascendant and argued that the demise of TAFEs and rise of private training companies “could be the biggest crisis in education that this country has ever seen.”
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We have a public institution on its knees that has been driven by misguided ideology and misaligned economic principles. The impending threat to the Victorian VET system is the decline in credibility and confidence of those skills industry relies upon. We have cultivated a system that thrives on churning out qualifications where providers are rewarded not on quality of training but by volume. When will common sense prevail and someone relise that it is quality training that the real market demands not worthless qualifications.