Joint Media Release - Coalition cuts to training will hurt skills development 19.08.10

Date published : 19  August  2010 

Australia's peak education, training and employment services bodies today expressed surprise and disappointment that the Federal Coalition would include some $3 billion in cuts to recurrent and capital funding to vocational education and training (VET), as part of its expenditure savings announced yesterday. 

The three peak bodies, Group Training Australia (GTA), the National Employment Services Association (NESA), and TAFE Directors Australia (TDA), called for urgent clarification of the foreshadowed spending cuts.

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