PSA support for vocational education and training

The PSA has provided comments to the Department of Industry on a consultation paper released in July 2016 on proposed changes to the Act and Regulation related to Apprenticeships and Traineeships in NSW.

Many of the provisions do not directly affect our members but the PSA has taken the opportunity to raise concerns including:

• the impact of ever-increasing contestability in vocational education and training which is destroying our TAFE system

• problems with the accountability of private vocational education and training providers

• inaction by government agencies in not taking on apprentices and trainees

• failure to sufficiently act on government policy on indigenous training and employment.

You can read our letter HERE.