The head of the industry body that represents the nation's TAFEs has described the system as "broken" and says serious reform is needed.Industry, teachers and advocates say many of Australia's TAFEs are showing the impacts of decade-long under-fundingIndustries like metal fabrication say course content is two decades old and apprentices say equipment is past its use-by-date
Apprentices, for example, were still required to spend 250 hours learning oxy acetylene welding, a technique barely used in industry anymore."It's easier to just use the same material time and time again than start afresh." "The government is spending on all these projects: infrastructure, defence — welding is a key focus," Mr Elias said.Underfunding is taking its toll on TAFE, says the president of the Australian Education Union.It is a question of funding.
The announcement of the Federal Government's JobTrainer program sounds like a massive injection — $1 billion — split between the states and Commonwealth. She said the Government was focused on simplifying training which was "currently marred by inconsistencies and incoherence, with little accountability for outcomes".Under JobTrainer the states can only access funds if they sign up to a new reform agreement and funding will only go to accredited courses in areas of need.
TAFE Directors Australia agree literacy and numeracy is a problem, but said it is a problem across the entire workforce.And while it is a schooling issue, Mr Robertson said TAFEs have a role to play. Between 2013 and 2017, more than $5 billion of taxpayer money went to the federal training loan scheme called VET-FEE-HELP after it was opened up to private providers.
Data Science is not even introduced tafensw. Most populous areas should have All the courses possible. They are always 200 KMs away.
Who would have thought that 'efficiency dividends' would have led to this?
Standard LNP operating procedure..slash funding..run institution down..say privatisation is better..wash hands of public education & training..import cheap labour to fill the skills shortage for Corp mates.. retire politics into lucrative Corp job while private provider fails.
abc isnt keeping pace with Truth & good content because like TAFE they are Deliberately UNDERFUNDED by Corrupt LNP GOV!
When you are continually defunded and destroyed by the lnp for corrupt privatisation, you can’t keep pace. Surely you understand this ?
Industry, teachers & advocates say Australian TAFEs are showing the impacts of a decade of under-funding ScottMorrisonMP & SenatorCash have wasted $billions on funding shonky for-profit colleges. This is wilful neglect of our precious TAFE system to fund their dodgy mates.
The problem is industry keeps telling TAFE how to educate students. They want monkeys who are 'trained' to do jobs and are paid peanuts. The VET system has been broken by competency-based training where competencies are defined by industry and not industry-experienced educators.
I dropped a TAFE building course that is still running asbestos sheet designs and has an OH&S policy that is at least ten years out of date.
TAFE teachers get paid a pitiful amount. Just another area where the governments have failed.
Well not a good story, but telling us what we need to know
Another good story by the ABC.
The mineral council of Tasmania has created a world class Welding centre in their own building with state of the art welding simulators and fast tracked courses. The see the need to ready the Tasmanian work force. If TAFE won’t do it, private industry will lead it. TMMEC
That grub Barry O Farrell & his budget cuts to TAFE, Police, Ambos & Fire and Rescue NSW did this. In the case of Fire and Rescue NSW it had many effects most notably on training. Hope you wait a very very very long time the next time you need an ambulance or fire fighters Barry.
what industry
Could that possibly be because successive gov'ts gutted funding? Surely not.
The building in the background, that's the former ABC site at Toowong in Brisbane, also known as the 'Bill Hurry Building'. Ask the ABC what he used to do in there, and apparently no one saw anything!!
drkerrynphelps gut TAFE by removing /excluding its teachers ,tech advisors, tutors, admin, industry links & funding, and guess what, it can't keep up to date. Who'da thunk it ?
No shit really? They’ve been left in limbo for years
Because of governments choice of private providers that don't deliver
drkerrynphelps That'll happen when governments of both persuasion are underfunding all education to keep taxes low on the likes of Forrest and Rinehart
A sewerage pipe once sprung a leak and dripped on a student in my class. The following week a part of the ceiling fell down near our lab. Sadly the staff weren’t particularly surprised
Not true, they are excellent at producing talented switchboard operators, grooms of the stool, video store managers, etc.
Well that’s probably to do with LNP gutting the institution.
TAFE was once a thriving community hub of learning, but the slash and burn tactics of certain government types destroyed all that!
We have a Federal Government which is keeping in step with the 1800s..
Labor has done little to nothing to increase manufacturing jobs and apprenticeship numbers.
Lots of apprentices to serve building Naval ships last year in Victoria, yet placed in underfunded, under resourced TAFE's.
I can vouch this. I did no acetylene welding/brazing, even though it is a required unit. Text books written over 15 years ago. Under resourced. Yet $70M upgrade to the gym/office building but not the Manufacturing department.
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