Recent Senate paper builds up reader expectations of a robust effort to reform VET – but the Coalition’s minority report shoots down those hopes. By John Mitchell A familiar experience: you start reading a new government report on the VET ...

Getting young people into education and employment is the main focus of a new VET research centre. The Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, within University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, will bring together researchers to work with government ...

Labor has joined private VET’s peak body in a push for the sector to have a national ombudsman. Rod Camm, Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) chief executive, recommended the establishment of a national VET ombudsman following a ...

TAFE Directors Australia has called on the government to urgently freeze funding to “high risk” vocational training providers and ban others amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the VET FEE-HELP scheme. In a statement issued on Monday morning, TDA chief executive Martin ...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has initiated legal proceedings against VET provider Unique International College over allegations the company made “false or misleading representations and engaged in misleading or deceptive and unconscionable conduct”. In a statement issued late yesterday, ...

Private VET must self-regulate effectively to stop dodgy providers, the Australian Council for Private Education and Training has said. In his response to the Senate inquiry into the sector, ACPET chief executive Rod Camm acknowledged systemic flaws in private VET ...

Labor and the Greens have both concluded that the findings of a Senate inquiry into the private VET sector reflect what they’ve been saying all along – that there are big problems that need to be fixed. The Senate inquiry into ...

People across NSW took to the streets and their keyboards this week to protest the Baird Government’s TAFE privatisation bid. Last month, NSW Greens MP Dr John Kaye obtained a document that showed the Baird Government was considering cutting $63 million from ...

An ASQA report shows the training of childcare workers isn’t the only thing that’s inadequate. By John Mitchell A controversial report has exposed the poor level of training of childcare workers around Australia, a finding that will cause deep consternation among ...

Online VET provider Open Universities Australia and the federal opposition have called for dodgy private training providers to be shut down and prosecuted. This follows recent testimony before a Senate inquiry into private VET providers that gave evidence the sector is poorly regulated. ...