TAFE funding – The Scan

The Scan 28 June 2016 #181

28/06/2016 by intermediatescan

Apprentice numbers slump 28 June 2016 | The number of apprentices across Australia has plunged since the Coalition took office, government figures show, with some of the steepest falls occurring in high-unemployment marginal seats still up for grabs at Saturday's election. Western Sydney has lost 10,642 apprentices and western Melbourne 4782, while the national total fell 28 per cent from 383,562 to 278,583, between December 2013 and December last year, documents obtained under Freedom of Information and NCVER data reveal. Labor claims the falling take up of apprenticeships is a direct result of the $1 billion stripped from trades support programs since the change of government, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ACPET, AiG, ALP policies, Budget, Coalition policies, Education policy, Greens, Group of 8, Higher education policy, Regional, Schools, TAFE, The Scan, universities, Universities Australia, University budgets, University reform, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: apprenticeship commencements, Election 2016, Fee deregulation, Gonski Review, Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014, Higher education fees, Schools funding, TAFE appointments, TAFE funding, University budgets, University funding, VET, VET FEE-HELP, VET funding

TDA: Election 2016 – Statements

26/06/2016 by intermediatescan

……………………………………………………………………………………………………… TAFE Directors Australia (TDA - the body representing Australia's public TAFE institutes) has issued a series of policy position papers that have been developed to steer the direction of policy affecting TAFE and the VET sector. Policy Paper 1 – TAFE: a national asset for Australia’s economic and social prosperity Policy Paper 2 - Quality is the hallmark of a well-regulated VET system Policy Paper 3 – Rural and remote vocational education and training relies on TAFE Policy Paper 4 – Ending discrimination in Australia’s tertiary education system Policy Paper 5 – Why a national industry policy & innovation and STEM … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Higher education policy, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, VET, VET FEE-HELP, Vocational education & training Tagged With: Apprenticeships, Election 2016, Equity, TAFE funding, VET FEE-HELP

TDA Policy Position Papers

26/06/2016 by intermediatescan

Filed Under: TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, The Scan, VET, VET FEE-HELP, Vocational education & training Tagged With: Apprenticeships, Election 2016, Equtiy, Higher education in TAFE, Innovation, Regional delivery, TAFE funding, TAFE regulation, VET FEE-HELP

The Scan # 178 12 April 2016

12/04/2016 by intermediatescan

TAFE does heavy lifting - TDA 12 April 2016 | A TAFE Directors Australia (TDA)-commissioned analysis of official data reveals ‘for profit’ private training colleges have gained a massive 75% share of the $3 billion Commonwealth VET FEE-HELP funding, while the public TAFE sector continues to do the “heavy lifting”. The performance of Australia’s 57 TAFE Institutes emerges strongly, dominating all major state and territory VET-funded ‘fields of education’ and trade apprenticeships. While TAFE delivered 63% of enrolments across the majority of fields of education, Commonwealth allocation of student loans to TAFE fell to just 20% in 2014, and the government’s own emergency legislation to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ABC, ACCC, ASQA, COAG, Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Commonwealth-State relations, Education policy, Higher education policy, NCVER, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, Tertiary media, The Scan, universities, University reform, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: Diversity, Fee deregulation, FEE-HELP, Fees, Funding, Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014, Rorting, Skills reform, TAFE funding, Tertiary education news, University budgets, VET FEE-HELP, VET funding

TAFE does the heavy lifting

12/04/2016 by intermediatescan

Report shows mismatch between federal VET student loan funding and skill priorities TDA NEWS | 12 April 2016 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… A TAFE Directors Australia (TDA)-commissioned analysis of official data reveals ‘for profit’ private training colleges have gained a massive 75% share of the $3 billion Commonwealth VET FEE-HELP funding, while the public TAFE sector continues to do the “heavy lifting”. …………………………………………………………………………………….......…… The research was undertaken for TDA by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). TDA sought the NCVER analysis to assess courses, funding, educational outcomes, market share, completions and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: COAG, Commonwealth policies, Commonwealth-State relations, Government, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: Rorting, Skills reform, TAFE funding, Tertiary education news, VET FEE-HELP, VET funding

TAFE’s role eroded

05/04/2016 by intermediatescan

Victim of "efficiency" and competition measures TDA News | 5 April 2016 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… A COAG-commissioned review of Australia's landmark, five-year plan for skills has found that critical community and educational elements of TAFE have been eroded. …………………………………………………………………………………….......…… The review of the National Partnership Agreement on Skills Reform (NPA) was undertaken by ACIL Allan Consulting last December and presented to the Council of Australian Governments on 1 April. It reveals the extent to which so-called competition and efficiency reforms have been pursued at the expense of downgrading TAFE. The review clearly states that the NPA was intended … [Read more...]

Filed Under: TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, The Scan, VET Tagged With: Skills reform, TAFE cuts, TAFE funding, TAFE news, Tertiary education news, VET deregulation

ACPET supports national review

21/03/2016 by intermediatescan

Within limits ACPET | 21 March 2016 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ACPET CEO Rod Camm looks at the issues raised in the Mitchell Institute paper, VET funding in Australia: Background trends and future directions, particularly the deterioration in public funding of VET. He also gives guarded support for Labor’s proposal for a comprehensive national review of VET. But he says such a review “review is simply not justified on the basis of quality concerns” pointing out that VET FEE-HELP enrolments, the locus of the current scandals, accounted for only 6% of total enrolments in 2014. This rather ignores that enrolments would have been somewhat higher in 2015. It also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ACPET, ALP policies, Coalition policies, Commonwealth-State relations, Higher education policy, TAFE, The Scan, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: Election 2016, TAFE funding, Tertiary education news, VET FEE-HELP, VET funding

Election 2016: Higher education and VET issues

20/03/2016 by intermediatescan

News items, statements, analysis and commentary The election outcome There's really not much to say, is there? TDA summed it up from a tertiary education perspective, saying the uncertainty of the vote itself is compounded by a curious lack of policy commitment from the Coalition, which did not release any skills policy or higher education policy during the campaign.....[ READ MORE ].... Labor Of its "100 positive policies", about 20% (19 to be precise) are in tertiary education. In higher education, Labor has committed to maintaining the demand driven system, backed up by a Student Funding Guarantee to provide "certainty to universities and remove the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ALP, ALP policies, Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Higher education policy, TAFE, The Scan, universities, Universities Australia, Vocational education & training, VRQA Tagged With: Diversity, Election 2016, Equity, Fee deregulation, Fees, Funding, Research, TAFE, TAFE funding, TAFE news, Tertiary education news, University news, VET funding

The need for a comprehensive national review of VET

16/03/2016 by intermediatescan

16 March 2016 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Following is an extract from a submission by the LH Martin Institute to the House of Representatives Inquiry into TAFE (May 2013) which argues the need for a comprehensive national inquiry into VET. ..........…………………………………………………………………………………….......…… ...policy-makers, in particular, but also industry, the VET provider sector and analysts need to be mindful of the sometimes enervating effect of constant changes to and attempts to remake the VET system. A restless, seemingly ceaseless search for perfection seems to characterise the official mindset about the VET sector. At any one time, it is almost certainly likely to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LH Martin Institute, TAFE, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: TAFE funding, Tertiary education news, VET funding, VET inquiry

Labor commits to wide-ranging national VET review

16/03/2016 by intermediatescan

First proper review since 1974 16 March 2016 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Labor will launch a comprehensive review of the vocational education and training sector - equivalent to the landmark Gonski Review into school funding and the Bradley Review of higher education - if it wins office at the next election. The review would be the first such inquiry into the VET sector since the Kangan Report in 1974, which actually coined the term TAFE. The 2011 Gonski review triggered major changes to school funding (albeit, a major tranche of which is now uncertain) while the 2008 Bradley review into higher education led to the uncapping of undergraduate student places, allowing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ALP policies, Policy, TAFE, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: Election 2016, TAFE funding, TAFE reviews, Tertiary education news and headlines, VET funding