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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”.
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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.
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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.
The former CEO of TAFE SA says the board should be “held to account” for “disturbing” failures in the training organisation, revealing he warned the Weatherill Government that a previous attempt to review the under-fire organisation this year lacked independence.
South Australia’s TAFE troubles could have State Bank-scale ramifications for the state’s future which is why our politicians need to work together to fix it, argues Mark Brindal, a former state minister for training.
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