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The Case for a National Charter for TAFE

其他書名	Its Role in Public Sector Provision in Australia
出版	TAFE Directors Australia, 2011
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8HF00AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋At a time when Australia faces unprecedented challenges in aligning its education and training outcomes with the productivity needs of its economy, this paper presents the case for a National Charter for TAFE. At the federal level, the Australian Government is negotiating a National Partnership for Vocational Education and Training to guide future policy in vocational education and training, while in states and territories a more contestable VET system is being seen as a key element in driving productivity and participation. TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) maintains that it is timely to articulate, reaffirm, and derive the full economic and social benefit from the leading role played by TAFE providers, known by all their various titles, as public sector Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). Overall, the VET sector urgently needs a properly designed market framework. It lacks effective market oversight with stable and predictable rules. The approach to setting price and subsidy levels is piecemeal. Governments need to form a view about market size on the supply side, rather than simplistically use RTO numbers as the indicator of market health. On the contrary, high or growing RTO numbers are more likely to signal poor regulation. TDA strongly supports choice and diversity for students, but warns that lessons must be learned from the demise of the international VET student market, caused in large part by the presence of RTOs whose culpable practices undermined Australia's hard-earned reputation for quality VET provision. Moves to expand the number of RTOs accessing government funding in a demand-driven environment, before the new regulatory framework is firmly in place, invites a repetition of disreputable practices in the domestic market. [Executive summary, ed].