The Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce’s final report – Skills focus returns to ‘must have’ sectors

TAFE training in “need to have” job areas of mining, construction and tourism will receive public funding while training for “nice to have” jobs such as fitness instruction will be slashed under a plan to reorganise Queensland’s vocational-education sector.

The Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce’s final report on the future of the state’s vocational-education sector, to be released today, recommends pursuing training in areas of skills shortages and will cut the number of TAFE campuses from 82 to 44.

The report, which was handed to the Newman government yesterday, recommends restructuring the sector so it becomes more commercially focused and more accountable to government.

The report found funding for school-based apprentices in entertainment courses had exploded 876 per cent over the past two years, while funding for fitness courses had increased 310 per cent.

Courses in construction had plummeted 26 per cent, while spending on agriculture and automotive training increased only about 5 per cent…

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via Skills focus returns to ‘must have’ sectors | Story & Education Stories | The Australian.