The Joyce Review is released, just not the one the feds commissioned on the VET system. Former New Zealand skills and tertiary education minister, Steven Joyce has also advised the South Australian government on better using its agencies to support growth-areas of the economy, including education.

Mr Joyce suggests that because the state has a 4.5 per cent national share of the international education market, this “suggests opportunities for further growth,” including private-sector VET.  But (and it strikes CMM as a rather big but), “current weaknesses in the SA VET sector as well as strong competition from other jurisdictions are key constraints to the sector being able to meet its growth potential.” It’s going to take more than sharpening-up public sector support for industry to fix that.