Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government\u2019s \u2018JobTrainer\u2019 scheme is heavy on spin and hugely hypocritical for a government that has overseen the marketisation and disintegration of public vocational education.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cThis is a government that has systematically gutted public TAFE over many years.
\n\u201cWe have seen the failures of government-subsidised, for-profit vocational education. We should not be going down the same path.
\n\u201cWe need targeted investment to rebuild our entire public TAFE system. The Liberals have overseen years of cuts and marketisation of vocational education to the detriment of staff, students and communities where these institutions played a vital role.
\n\u201cIn real terms, the Liberals have cut more than $2 billion in funding for student places in the last few years, watched training hours collapse, and apprenticeship numbers fall to historic lows.
\n\u201cWe must not allow \u2018JobTrainer\u2019 to end up just another windfall for the profit-making private providers at the expense of TAFE.
\n\u201cRather than a narrow scheme of selected subsidised short courses, what we need right now is an unprecedented investment to rebuild TAFE and make it genuinely fee-free. This is a time to set ourselves up for a strong and sustainable future for all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government\u2019s \u2018JobTrainer\u2019 scheme is heavy on spin and hugely hypocritical for a government that has overseen the marketisation and disintegration of public vocational education. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThis is a government that has systematically gutted public TAFE over many years. \u201cWe have seen the … Continue reading “Skills Spend Heavy On Spin And Hypocrisy”<\/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-7324","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\/7324","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=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}