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TAFE

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  Compliance paperwork means less teaching

  September 17, 2019

  TAFE Teachers Association members across NSW have been holding union branch meetings to oppose the “Next steps in demonstrating your VET currency and competency” proposal, initiated by acting TAFE NSW managing director Kerry Penton.

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  Politicians unfairly banishing TAFE from vocabulary and funding

  September 10, 2019

  TAFE should not be dismissed by governments, as it has in the Council of Australian Government’s recent statement on Vocational Education and Training (VET).

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  Drop in VET students at odds with National Skills Week message

  September 02, 2019

  The continued decline in the number of students enrolled with nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) makes a mockery of the government’s National Skills Week, Australian Education Union Federal TAFE Secretary Maxine Sharkey said.

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  Management changes and compliance red tape hindering students and teachers

  August 24, 2019

  The recent resignation of TAFE Managing Director Dr Caralee McLiesh just nine months after the previous Managing Director moved on has highlighted the problems facing TAFE, its students, teachers and communities.

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  Vale Bill Ballantyne

  August 22, 2019

  ​Federation Life Member Bill Ballantyne was a courageous unionist and Organiser who led his colleagues in many Federation campaigns. He was never one to walk away from anything he believed was worth fighting for.

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  Government funding can stop TAFE decline

  August 07, 2019

  The best way to reverse the fall in enrolments in government-funded vocational education was to restore funding to TAFE and reinstate it as the primary provider of vocational education in Australia, Ms Sharkey said.

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  Wider focus for TAFE would better prepare students for their working lives

  July 16, 2019

  New social policy is desperately needed for the vocational education and training sector says Centre for Future Work associate Pat Forward.

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  Forum to plot course to bolster TAFE

  July 09, 2019

  A national event on the future of TAFE is being planned by the Australian Education Union.