Students accept ok-ish training outcome

VET policy resembles a Jacobean tragedy acted by the Marx Brothers and yet students are endlessly forgiving of what it leads to. The estimable National Centre for Vocational Education Research reports that data collected mid-year shows 87.3% of graduates were satisfied with the overall quality of the training, up 1.3 percentage points from 2016 and 90% of people who took individual courses were happy. And before the TAFE lobby starts, yes these figures cover all training, including private providers.

This is students being very generous indeed given just 56 per cent of people who complete a course “had an improved employment status” and barely half the people not working before study had jobs after completing.


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