VET & TAFE
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Coalition’s pitch to get more students into VET after high school
A Coalition government would invest $260m to get more high school students to take up trades instead of pursuing university,…
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Clean energy TAFE Centre of Excellence to be built in Tas
A new $27m Clean Energy Centre of Excellence will be established in Burnie, where students will be trained to help…
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Albanese pledges free TAFE to help ease workforce shortages
Among the Prime Minister's first election promises is a pledge to pass laws making TAFE education free for 100,000 students each year…
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National Skills Week: How paying tradies to be TAFE teachers works
A program that pays mid-career professionals a salary while they train to become TAFE teachers has seen a 97 per…
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National Skills Taxonomy: Will it truly unite tertiary education? – Opinion
Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) is working to develop a National Skills Taxonomy (NST) to enable a more flexible and…
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Better support for rural and remote apprentices
An association that advocates for geographically isolated students and parents has called for updates to payments and processes they say…
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$35m for new Cairns TAFE to train care and support workers
A $35m investment will be made into a new aged care, disability support and mental health care and support TAFE…
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New independent body aims to clean up the ‘rotten core’ of VET
A new representative body for vocational education and training will launch next month with the aim of giving education providers…
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VET numbers soar past 1.26 million in skills push
The number of students enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) courses has surpassed 1.26 million under a national…
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$83m to convert casual teachers to TAFE educators
The NSW state government will commit $83.1m over the next four years to help convert casual teachers to permanent employment…
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4% pay rise for new NSW TAFE teachers
New NSW TAFE teachers will start out on salaries over $92,000 under a deal inked between the Minns government and teachers’ union.…
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NSW to miss housing targets due to lack of builders
The plummeting number of apprentices and school-leavers studying trades will cripple the Minns government’s plans to build 75,000 homes a…
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ITECA: Move to EVs needs workforce training strategy
The Climate Council has said all petrol and diesel car sales should be banned by 2035 if Australia wants to…
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TAFE should be local, industry aligned force, review says
Vocational education and training (VET) should be led by "best-practice" TAFEs that act as leaders in meeting critical skills needs,…
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TAFE teacher rules relaxed to improve shortage
High school teachers and teachers-in-training can now use their qualifications at TAFE in a "commonsense" move to ease the shortage…
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Apprenticeship scheme to be reviewed as half of trainees drop out
A $1.3bn scheme to get more people into apprenticeships will be investigated amid concerns it is failing to grow the…
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65% increase in SA fee-free TAFE enrolments
South Australian applications to study fee-free TAFE in 2024 are up 65 per cent from two years ago, the first…
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Research shows we can improve student equity
Most Australian universities claim to make the world a better place by creating environments where people want to work and…
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National Skills Passport proceeds to business case
The federal government will spend $9.1m to support a business case and consultation process to define the scope of a…
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Govt cracks down on ‘dodgy’ education agents
The federal government has announced major changes are underway to combat the rorting of international student visas and to better…
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Uni and VET courses key to employment: Labour market report breakdown
The latest quarterly Labour Market Update was released last Tuesday by Jobs and Skills Australia. In the year to May…
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Over 214,000 students enrol in Fee-Free TAFE
Enrolments in the government-backed Fee-Free TAFE initiative exceeded 214,000 in the first six months, nearly 35,000 more than anticipated. The…
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RTO network gets $300m to support ADF technical trades skills
Thousands of Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel will have greater access to technical trades training through a five-year $300m contract…
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‘Fee-free’ TAFE not exactly what was agreed on: opinion
The Australian Government (AG) finalised Agreements with all States and Territories (S&T) for initial delivery of 180,000 fee-free TAFE and…
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Why we need personalised competency-based education in universities: opinion
The centuries-old learning approach that western higher education is defined by has measured progress, success and value of learning as…
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