By NSW Teachers Federation 19 June 2014
The Upper House of the NSW parliament today carried a bill initiated by the NSW Greens to stop the Smart and Skilled training market, restore TAFE funding and freeze TAFE fees and money going to private providers . Greens MPs were joined by the Shooters and Fishers Party and Labor, to pass the bill.
Greens MLC, Dr John Kaye, said:
"The battle to save TAFE from the free-fall collapse it experienced in other states has taken an important step forward.
"Just as similar competitive market schemes in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland have seen those states' training sectors plunged into chaos, the Baird government is subjecting TAFE in NSW to a massive decline in students, funding and staff numbers.
"Stripping TAFE of funding for its core courses and handing over to students to choose between providers is recipe for falling standards, shorter course offerings and the triumph of cheap marketing tricks over quality outcomes for the state.”
Acting President of the NSW Teachers Federation, Gary Zadkovich, welcomed both the passage of the bill, and the policy announcement from John Robertson today, which would see student fees capped at current levels and the abolition of the NSW Government’s Smart and Skilled’ changes.
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