New research shows private VET providers are ill-equipped to tackle the learning needs of vulnerable young people, who are increasingly being enrolled onto these training courses.
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Under the proposed plan for reform, there is still a risk that private providers will continue to shop between the Commonwealth and the states for the best price and conditions.
In recent times, the front pages of our newspapers have provided an almost daily reminder that some Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers are to be avoided.
Lured by government subsidies, registered training organisations are enrolling people into VET courses that do not match their needs and for which there is a dubious case at best for taxpayer support.
The South Australian government has decided to largely limit funding for government-subsidised vocational courses to TAFE South Australia, the sole public training provider.
A few anecdotes about dodgy private training colleges don’t mean the whole system is broken.
It would be a great shame if trying to achieve too much in higher education reform meant that the federal government achieved nothing at all.
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Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
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Senior Research Fellow in Youth, Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Honorary Fellow in Education Policy, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Former Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Deputy Director (Research) Peter Underwood Centre, University of Tasmania
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Communications Director
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Senior Research Fellow, specialising in big data, The University of Melbourne
