The Prime Minister has taken aim at the lack of consistency between states over vocational training fees and course quality.
"At a federal level, we are focusing on three key issues. Firstly, the complexity of a system that is clunky and unresponsive to skills demands. Ask any business - they will tell you that. The lack of clear information about what those skills needs are.
"Ask any student or their parents about what it is like to deal with the system and whether they think they are getting value out of it. They will tell you of a funding system marred by inconsistencies and incoherence with little accountability.
"Currently, the average time frame to develop or update training products is 18 months with a third taking over two years to update. Not very responsive. For prospective student, the large number of choices they face for qualifications can be bewildering and overwhelming. Compounded by lack of visibility over the quality of training providers and the employment outcomes for those courses. There are over 1,400 qualifications on offer and almost 17,000 units of competency.
"There is also substantial variations in fees for students, depending on which state they are in. For example, in 2019, a student undertaken certificate 3 in blinds, awning and security screens received a subsidy of $3,726 in Queensland, $9,630 in New South Wales, and no subsidy in Victoria, unless the qualification is taken as an apprenticeship.
"Now, I'm not making any comment on each of those individual measures. But there is a wide variety. Subsidies for a diploma of nursing in 2017 varied between $19,963 in Western Australia and $8,218 in Queensland. And all of this is before the question surrounding the quality of that training is addressed.
"No surprise, then, that state-subsidised students in Queensland incur VSL debts that are on average more than double of those in New South Wales. It is no wonder when faced with this many potential students d default to the university system. Even if their career could be best enhanced through vocational education.
"I want those trade and skills jobs to be aspired to, not looked down upon or seen as a second best option. It is a first best option. To address this challenge, we've embark on a series of skills, organisation pilots. They are designed to give industry the opportunity to shape the training system to be more responsive to their skills needs and take responsibility for qualification development."
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