Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’Connor is vowing to overhaul TAFE education as a key government agency warns the nation’s ability to achieve net zero is at risk, while the tertiary sector can’t keep pace with the demand.
Australia isn’t match-fit to train people in the skills the nation desperately needs to slash its emissions, a key government agency has warned, as Labor pledges an overhaul of the beleaguered vocational sector to ensure it is up to the task.
The government has set aside $95.6 million over nine years for 10,000 places in the subsidised new energy apprenticeships program. Trainees are eligible if they undertake a trade that is mostly in renewables. “Decarbonising will need highly skilled workers to do all the rewiring, replacing, the relocating, the re-programming and the maintaining.”
“The VET sector has endured underfunding, deregulation, loose rules of VET market entry, a lack of national cohesion and an obsession for competition at the expense of collaboration,” O’Connor will say. “Encouraging so many international graduates to stay and struggle in Australia is in no one’s interests,” Grattan’s economic policy program director, Brendan Coates, said.
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