Did we need any more proof that uncapped funding of private for-profit vocational education and training (VET) providers has been a disaster for Australia? A “disastrous backfire”, according to John Ross, writing in The Australian on Thursday 1 February 2018. His article (“Vocation training open market schemes a disaster”) about the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services for the period 2012 to 2016 notes that 520,000 students participated in government-funded VET in 2012, a figure that fell to 367,000 in 2016 – despite this funding rising from $160 million (in 2012) to $$1.68 billion in 2016.
Read the full article posted by https://cca.edu.au/billions-wasted-in-vocational-education/ Community Colleges Australia