{"id":3318,"date":"2019-07-23T02:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T02:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2019-07-23T02:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T02:23:24","slug":"new-tafe-decline-data-shows-morrison-government-needs-to-reverse-course-and-invest-in-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/07\/23\/new-tafe-decline-data-shows-morrison-government-needs-to-reverse-course-and-invest-in-vet\/","title":{"rendered":"New TAFE Decline Data shows Morrison Government Needs to Reverse Course and Invest in VET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said that new TAFE data released today shows the continued decline of TAFE and must be a wake up call to save TAFE.<br \/>\nA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncver.edu.au\/research-and-statistics\/publications\/all-publications\/government-funded-students-and-courses-2018\">new report by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research<\/a>\u00a0has shown that for government funded vocational education: student numbers have dropped 1.9%, subject enrolments have dropped 5.7%, and training hours have dropped 6.4%.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis new data once again proves what communities have been saying for some time, TAFE is being slowly destroyed by government neglect and a lack of funding.<br \/>\n\u201cTAFE is an essential part of our public education system but has been deliberately decimated by state and federal governments. We want to see private for-profit providers removed entirely from federal funding of vocational training and TAFE given as close to 100% of funding as possible.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens have a plan to rebuild TAFE as the vocational training provider of choice for students. We will remove the Gillard-era contestable funding requirements and make TAFE and uni free for all,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said that new TAFE data released today shows the continued decline of TAFE and must be a wake up call to save TAFE. A\u00a0new report by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research\u00a0has shown that for government funded vocational education: student numbers have dropped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/07\/23\/new-tafe-decline-data-shows-morrison-government-needs-to-reverse-course-and-invest-in-vet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New TAFE Decline Data shows Morrison Government Needs to Reverse Course and Invest in VET&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}