VET & TAFE
Merger won’t impact TAFE’s importance
Brisbane’s metropolitan TAFEs face amalgamation, for better or for worse. But Australia needs vocational training more than ever.
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Brisbane’s metropolitan TAFEs face amalgamation, for better or for worse. But Australia needs vocational training more than ever.
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This piece has many tendentious claims, despite being vague generalisations. To pick just 2.
Flat per capita productivity is not a ‘serious indictment’ of Australia’s education. Australia’s labour productivity is actually increasing, altho modestly. It is multi factor productivity that is flat, and that has much to do with levels of investment and its management.
It may be hard for the author ‘to see the majority of students choosing anything other than a recognised brand’, but that is just what they are doing in Victoria, where Tafe is now a minority provider of vocational education.
Re Mr Moodie’s response. Choice in Victoria, student driven demand, a mismatch between industry requirements for a workforce and the qualifications chosen by new students are hardly a glowing endorsement of the model in Victoria.
There is always room for improvement in any tertiary education and training system, but not always via the path of least resistance, and in many cases, lower quality. As evidenced by the Victorian VET system’s chequered past over the last three or four years.
There is room for public (institutional) delivery and a truly user chosen private market.