TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) has taken a bold step by launching a national charter for TAFEs as the basis for a framework for the National Partnership Agreement on Skills. The purpose of the charter is to form a framework under ...

Opposition is increasing in Federal Parliament to the government’s reforms to vocational education and training. Louis White reports. The Coalition and the Greens are unimpressed with the Gillard government’s reform agenda to develop a more skilled workforce through the use ...

While controversies rage in Victoria about shonky providers, ASQA is closing in wherever it can. By John Mitchell. Just a few years back shonky providers were viewed as a temporary aberration in the VET sector, located within and then hopefully ...

Institutes and colleges were set up to train people and fulfil community service obligations; unfortunately the latter is now disappearing.  By Lawrence Angus. The public vocational education and training (VET) sector has been under attack in Victoria since the days ...

Tertiary education minister Senator Chris Evans has tried to provide reassurance amid speculation that the federal government’s commitment to the public provision of skills training is faltering. In an interview with Campus Review, Evans said he was concerned that vocational ...

The removal of price controls on vocational education and training, such as in Victoria, has sparked a race to be the cheapest. By Leesa Wheelahan. In Victoria, TAFE will lose approximately $290 million of funding in 2013. The Victorian government ...

Public providers have to concentrate on areas where they have a competitive advantage and make room for private operators, writes Rohan Cresp. Every parrot in the TAFE pet shop is chattering the same mantra: TAFE in Victoria is soon to ...

The chief commissioner of the Australian Skills Quality Authority answers criticism that his organisation is keeping a low profile. By John Mitchell. These are extraordinary times for VET nationally. The relentless stories about dodgy providers in Victoria over the last ...

A carbon management course developed in 2010 for the waste management industry has been successfully adapted as a VET program for schools. The Certificate III in Carbon Management was developed by Sandhurst Catholic Education Office (CEO), north of Melbourne, in ...

Victoria University is experiencing the full brunt of the state government’s decision to slash $100 million from its training budget. The government’s move will partly strip the public providers (TAFEs) of the 22 per cent base funding they receive to ...