Just a few weeks ago Scott Morrison addressed the need for a post-COVID educated workforce and pressed the virtual re-set button for the VET sector. The same sector that according to the Productivity Commission, has failed two generations of Australians.
I am concerned that such a simplistic assumption may send us crashing into another brick wall in the near future. The lack of success, in certain vocational pathways, is complex but can be explained by the lack of alignment with industries and learners’ needs.