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Australia: Vocational training crisis heading towards social crisis

EI: TVET not delivering

“TVET is a crucial area of development for the (up to) two-thirds of students who don't take university focused traditional academic pathways,” said EI President Susan Hopgood. “The fact that they are being positioned into courses run often by the private sector, frowned upon by academia, but conveniently filling a hole in government statistics, needs more evidence-based research such as the EI TVET study to see what is really going on.”

She added that this study highlights the necessity of the TVET sector but that it is falling short of the promise of providing educational pathways for all students. “The productive capabilities approach proposed in the report would see TVET students not only picking up skills in, say, mechanics or hairdressing, but also learning citizenship skills and developing a broader range of capabilities for a lifetime.”