Campus Review
| TAFE trauma: Baillieu govt $300m funding cut |
The Victorian TAFE Association, the National Tertiary Education Union and community groups are fighting hard to get the Victorian government to reverse its decision to cut up to $300 million from the TAFE budget. David Williams, Victorian TAFE Association director says “a number of politicians at the federal and state level appear to be uttering rehearsed lines of misinformation”:
They essentially argue the falsity that Victorian TAFE enrolments had grown so fast that it needed to be cut back to reasonable levels. They are setting about fudging the differences between TAFE and private training colleges.
Figures released by the VTA show that while private training providers had overseen growth in student numbers of 308% from 2008 to 2011, in the same period TAFEs had grown by a modest (and evidently sustainable) 4%.
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