The Age | 27 September 2012
Swinburne University will close a highly regarded course for people with disabilities, forcing some students to find alternative places to study. The university will stop enrolling students for its work education course, which prepared them for basic workplace duties. Swinburne will also scale back its transition education course, which many disabled students completed before enrolling in work education.
TAFE director Linda Brown wrote to parents last month telling them that funding changes had affected Swinburne’s ability to run its courses, although the university management says it has begun talking to the government about the funding it needs to continue running the courses. From 2013 the university will enrol new students in transition education only at its Wantirna campus. It previously offered the course at Hawthorn, Lilydale and Wantirna. The changes will affect about 50 students.
