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23 June 2000 |
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NewsSupport for Campaign Against TAFE Cuts
The NSW State Budget for 2000-2001 imposes severe cuts on TAFE, there is a reduction of $133M (10.5%) in real terms. These cuts are expected to lead to a loss of 730 full-time jobs. Student enrolments are expected to rise dramatically for this year by 171,000. While these 171,000 additional enrolments represent only a 0.6% increase in equivalent full-time student numbers. The additional work caused by these enrolments will create massive problems for administrative staff in TAFE colleges.
"Over the last two Budgets, the teaching staff have been reduced by approximately 15% while equivalent full-time student numbers have increased by 2.6 per cent. "The Carr Labor Government is expecting fewer teachers to cope an increased number of students%," Teachers Federation representative Phil Bradley says.
"This means that the quality of education will suffer as class sizes increase and direct student-to-teacher contact is reduced," Bradley says. "Such an attack on New South Wales TAFE, the premier Vocational Education and Training provider in Australia cannot be tolerated. It is completely unworthy of a State Labor Government and will damage Kim Beazley's "knowledge nation" policy objective. "The Labor Council will be asking Unions affected by the TAFE cuts to prepare for the possibility of joint action in the near future. "Those most affected by the Budget cuts are working-class families. As such cuts invariably fall most heavily in second-chance education areas as literacy, numeracy and English to speakers of other languages, disabilities and other access elective programs. TAFE (Release)
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