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Former Olympic Dam boss to lead TAFE SA
The State Government has elevated the former head of BHP’s Olympic Dam mine to lead a renewed TAFE SA board.
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The State Government has elevated the former head of BHP’s Olympic Dam mine to lead a renewed TAFE SA board.
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The State Government has made three new appointments to the board of TAFE SA, including the former BHP executive responsible for the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia’s north.
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A course revamp – including a review of student fees – will be part of a “fresh start” as the Marshall Government seeks to overhaul TAFE SA, after a damning independent report laid bare the depths of its troubles, lamenting a strategic vacuum and poor leadership that have yielded “four years of lost opportunity”.
TAFE SA has signed a memorandum of understanding with French vocational training provider AFPA as part of a State Government-led push to upskill the state’s defence and shipbuilding industry.
UPDATED | The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) today announced it would revoke its decision to suspend 10 TAFE SA courses that were previously deemed substandard.
South Australia’s TAFE fiasco shows what can go wrong when institutions aren’t subjected to outside scrutiny, writes economics commentator Richard Blandy.
TAFE SA has been given extra time to improve its substandard courses, with the national regulator approving an extension on their suspension until two weeks before the next state election.
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