11 October 2012
With TAFE struggling across the country with budget cuts and the impact of “marketisation”, the Invest in Quality, Invest in TAFE campaign has established a blog site to encourage those interested in what is happening to TAFE around the country to contribute to the debate and discussion. The first post surveys the state of the sector.
Three states – Victoria, NSW and Queensland – are feeling the impact of savage state government budget cuts to TAFE budgets, with the combined effect of a shift to full competition for funding combining with the state government budget cuts in Victoria to place TAFE in that state on the brink of disaster.
In Victoria on 13 September 2012, the media was leaked a copy of Cabinet in Confidence documents which outlined further extensive cuts to the Victorian TAFE system, include further job cuts, assets sales and campus closures, course cuts and rationalisations, fee increases of up to 700% in some courses, the establishment in a number of TAFE institutes of separate entities (private arms) to deliver trades training, partnerships and amalgamations with other TAFE institutes and universities, the deployment of administrative staff to deliver training, and a reversion to the modern award and other significant attacks on wages and conditions.
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