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Education
NSW seeks new vocational training options for school students
NSW has agreed to match the Commonwealth's $500 million for skills training with its proportional share of funding as TAFE makes plans to commercialise its services.
- by Anna Patty
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Jobs
Government's $2 billion 'JobTrainer' plan to help school-leavers and unemployed
Australians will be offered $2 billion in training subsidies to learn new skills in a program to help job seekers and school-leavers tough out the recession.
- by David Crowe
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Training sector calls for $5 billion to bring thousands of apprentices out of hibernation
The vocational training sector is asking the federal government for support to create opportunities for thousands of Australian apprentices in 'hibernation'.
- by Anna Patty
University
Unis and VET join forces to build aerotropolis and jobs of the future
The VET sector took an $80 million step towards a new collaboration with universities to deliver the skills needed to build and run the new Western Sydney Aerotropolis.
- by Anna Patty
Education
Captain Cook College staff recruited illiterate students who couldn't use a computer: court
Staff who worked at the college, which has campuses in Sydney and Brisbane, have raised concerns about the ability of students with limited language and computer skills to complete the courses.
- by Anna Patty
ACCC
Government cancels more than $1.2 billion in VET student loans
The federal government has cancelled more than $1.2 billion in loans to VET students.
- by Anna Patty
Jobs
Vocational training loans would saddle many with a 'lifetime of debt'
The Productivity Commission has proposed tighter regulation to help protect students from rorters in private colleges.
- by Anna Patty
HSC
Education chief blames ATAR for 'profoundly distorting' final years of school
A learner profile should supplement the ATAR, and include life lessons learned working at McDonalds, or caring for others, says the new NESA chair
- by Jordan Baker
Education
Governments challenged to shake up 'Byzantine' vocational education system
A Productivity Commission report has found the skills sector is "underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches".
- by Fergus Hunter
VCE
Why a Queensland TAFE-trained nurse can pay $14,000 more than in Victoria
Training companies hide course prices in Australia's complex $6.1 billion a year TAFE and vocational education sector. As a result too many students pay too much for their courses, a Productivity Commission reviews finds.
- by Tony Moore
Coronavirus pandemic
Industry calls for $3.9 billion intervention to save apprenticeships
The Australian Industry Group has urged the federal government to take immediate action to stem a dramatic decline in apprenticeships.
- by Anna Patty