Market more important than outcomes

By focusing on the business of vocational education and training, rather than good training, we are devaluing a once strong system.

The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained that private providers were on the ascendant and argued that the demise of TAFEs and rise of private training companies “could be the biggest crisis in education that this country has ever seen.”