ATC- Skilling or Top Billing?

(Hort School) 5 tables, a fence and a garden shed running at a loss ?

This is the ACT Government at work here…

From what I hear Thumper, the hort school campus costs too much to maintain and the courses are moving to the main one at Bruce.

Actually sounds like sensible management.

Pathetic. I cannot believe that Howard and his crew are really intent on going through with this ridiculous duplication of the TAFE/CIT system, which already has all the infrastructure in place to deliver this kind of training, and could be doing a lot more of it if Howard had actually invested money in TAFE over the last 11 years rather than pouring it into pointless vote buying exercises such as this.

Troy, I note you will generously be giving $10 million dollars to 70 schools for trades skills, what a pity you didn’t pour some of the $2 billion the Coalition has spent on taxpayer funded Liberal advertising over the last 11 years into TAFE instead, what a great result we could have had.

Poor Humphries was out handing out scare cards about Rudd Chopping the Public Service! this morning as people turned up to work. He wasn’t getting much business, poor desperate bugger. He’s on the wrong side.

Well I can’t see the point of the ‘new’ tech colleges – when they have simultaneously been underfunding TAFE for years, then wonder why there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople. Alternatively, I note Kev is moving to draw retired tradies back in thru mentoring (on the kevin07 site).

When Gary and I visited Gungahlin for the announcement, it was to launch part of a broader program to establish 100 new Australian Technical Colleges across Australia. Australia made a big mistake 20 years ago by closing all the dedicated technical high schools around the country.

As part of our plan, the Coalition will create 30 new colleges from scratch as well as offer 70 existing state or independent secondary schools $10 million each to convert their existing school from an academic focus into a technical college, offering students a year 12 certificate and a school-based apprenticeship. The program would benefit new schools as the ATC infrastructure could be established in parallel with the construction of the new school.

Labor’s alternative is to simply attach a ‘trades training centre’ classroom to each school, with no timetable for establishment, no specification of curriculum and no benchmarks for expected outcomes.

If elected, Labor has confirmed it will scrap Australian Technical Colleges. It is opposed to specialised education. This is short sighted, will not deliver the skills needed by Australian businesses and poses a risk to our future prosperity.

In contrast, the Coalition’s plan will ensure young Australians have the opportunity to develop their talents at a secondary school level at specialist technical colleges.

Troy Williams
Liberal Candidate for Fraser
http://www.troywilliams.com.au

Stupid waste of time and money.
They should just employ a few more tafe teachers to take on yr 11 and 12s if that’s what they want.

Maybe his plan is to sneak there under cover of darkness and change the sign out the front?

The irony of it is that Humphries announces this election promise on the land that the ACT government is going build both a college and CIT campus on in 2009.

It does seem like a strange form of duplication of the TAFE sector. Is there an existing TAFE in QBN?

My understanding is that it’s primarily a way of putting those pesky teachers on AWAs by making them Commonwealth rather than state/territory employees.