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What's New

• AEU Media Release: Gillard Government announcement on vocational education funding
• Experts say loan plan for vocational diplomas will increase students' payments The Australian Julie Hare and John Ross
• First Aboriginal language graduatesThe Great Lakes Advocate
• Fears TAFE will go down Victoria Road The Sydney Morning Herald Anna Patty
• TAFE members in SA delivered a Christmas card to Minister Tom Kenyon on Wednesday, 14th December

  
  Click here to view Christmas card delivered to Minister Kenyon

• 2011 CEET Report Update
  
• Campus Review have shared some of their most recent articles with us:
  Victorian TAFE being harmed says director Annette Blackwell
  The great Victorian experiment Annette Blackwell
  Political economist challenges state VET system John Mitchell
  
• The Tasmanian Education Minister, Nick McKim has announced a review of Tasmania's public VET providers. This is the result of lobbying by the Tasmanian Branch of the AEU about the damaging consequences of separating TAFE Tasmania into two separate entities. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Tasmania to reassert its confidence in public TAFE provision. Read the government's media statement here.
  
• Read our new information sheets Stop the privatisation of TAFE and Support the public TAFE system
  
• Cuts sink shipwright course The Age, 4 December 2011, Mark Russell
  
• Alleged kickback scheme a "rip-off" The Australian, 25 November 2011, John Ross
  
• Students, TAFEs feel the squeeze The Australian, 5 October 2011, John Ross
  
• NSW looks to move down market-based training path The Australian, 29 September 2011, Julie Hare
  
• Fact Sheet: The 10 Market myths of Australian vocational and higher education
  
• Fact Sheet: Victorian VET Reform: Privatising TAFE
  
• Victorian TAFES in financial trouble The Australian, 21 September 2011, Julie Hare
  
• Fact Sheet: The failed Productivity Places Program: Privatisation by stealth, low quality outcomes
  
• PPP Virus spreads through VET System The Australian, 9 September 2011, John Ross
  
• Bleak future tipped for TAFEs The Australian, 7 September 2011, John Ross
  
• Quality worries as private colleges grab lions share of money for skills training The Australian, 31 August 2011, John Ross
  
• The Productivity Places Program - argualbly the flagship of the federal government's attempt to privatise the TAFE system - has been found to be badly administered, targeted towards lower level qualifications not in skills shortage areas, and have peverse incentives to reduce the focus on completion rates. Read more about it here.
  "$2bn Government Skills Program 'failed to address key shortages'" The Australian, 30 August 2011, John Ross
  
• Great vision, poor policy Campus Review, 23 August 2011 - Pat Forward
  
• It's raining acronyms, as VET hits a traffic snarl. The Australian,
  28 July 2011, John Ross
  
• TAFEs losing out to private providers for public funding The Australian, 13 July 2011, John Ross
  
  

Resources

This page provides the latest on TAFE issues, policies, research and campaigns and includes links to pdf documents. You may need to download Adobe Reader.

Join us on Facebook or Twitter.

What's New

• First Aboriginal language graduatesThe Great Lakes Advocate
• Fears TAFE will go down Victoria Road The Sydney Morning Herald Anna Patty
• TAFE members in SA delivered a Christmas card to Minister Tom Kenyon on Wednesday, 14th December

  
  Click here to view Christmas card delivered to Minister Kenyon

• 2011 CEET Report Update
  
• Campus Review have shared some of their most recent articles with us:
  Victorian TAFE being harmed says director Annette Blackwell
  The great Victorian experiment Annette Blackwell
  Political economist challenges state VET system John Mitchell
  
• The Tasmanian Education Minister, Nick McKim has announced a review of Tasmania's public VET providers. This is the result of lobbying by the Tasmanian Branch of the AEU about the damaging consequences of separating TAFE Tasmania into two separate entities. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Tasmania to reassert its confidence in public TAFE provision. Read the government's media statement here.
  
• Read our new information sheets Stop the privatisation of TAFE and Support the public TAFE system
  
• Cuts sink shipwright course The Age, 4 December 2011, Mark Russell
  
• Alleged kickback scheme a "rip-off" The Australian, 25 November 2011, John Ross
  
• Students, TAFEs feel the squeeze The Australian, 5 October 2011, John Ross
  
• NSW looks to move down market-based training path The Australian, 29 September 2011, Julie Hare
  
• Fact Sheet: The 10 Market myths of Australian vocational and higher education
  
• Fact Sheet: Victorian VET Reform: Privatising TAFE
  
• Victorian TAFES in financial trouble The Australian, 21 September 2011, Julie Hare
  
• Fact Sheet: The failed Productivity Places Program: Privatisation by stealth, low quality outcomes
  
• PPP Virus spreads through VET System The Australian, 9 September 2011, John Ross
  
• Bleak future tipped for TAFEs The Australian, 7 September 2011, John Ross
  
• Quality worries as private colleges grab lions share of money for skills training The Australian, 31 August 2011, John Ross
  
• The Productivity Places Program - argualbly the flagship of the federal government's attempt to privatise the TAFE system - has been found to be badly administered, targeted towards lower level qualifications not in skills shortage areas, and have peverse incentives to reduce the focus on completion rates. Read more about it here.
  "$2bn Government Skills Program 'failed to address key shortages'" The Australian, 30 August 2011, John Ross
  
• Great vision, poor policy Campus Review, 23 August 2011 - Pat Forward
  
• It's raining acronyms, as VET hits a traffic snarl. The Australian,
  28 July 2011, John Ross
  
• TAFEs losing out to private providers for public funding The Australian, 13 July 2011, John Ross
  
  

Resources