Labor’s Senate Leader Penny Wong must use her authority to direct her colleagues to change the location of the Senate inquiry into TAFE SA from Sydney to Adelaide.
As South Australian students return to school today, the State Liberals have restated their positive plans for the state's education system.
The State Liberals today unveiled a package of measures to tackle bullying in schools, including replacing the controversial Safe Schools program with a broad evidence-based anti-bullying program with particular focus on stopping online bullying.
The State Liberals have again criticised the Government for its mishandling of TAFE and the training sector, today highlighting data from the Auditor-General’s Report showing tens of millions of dollars spent on Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages (TVSPs) between 2012 and 2017.
The State Liberals have labelled as totally unacceptable the fact the Nous Group, the private consultancy hired to resolve TAFE SA’s accreditation scandal, won’t be starting its investigation until the middle of February.
The 2017 NAPLAN final results for South Australia confirm the fears raised by the Opposition when the preliminary results were released earlier this year: Labor has failed our school children, leaving them at the back of the class compared to other states.
Shadow Minister for Education John Gardner has slammed the Weatherill Labor Government’s failure to set up a dedicated hotline for students affected by the TAFE SA accreditation scandal.
The Weatherill Labor Government’s habit of using TAFE SA as a dumping ground for Labor hacks is a significant contributing to the chaos engulfing the organisation.
The State Liberals are demanding the Weatherill Government incorporates private sector training providers in the solution to the TAFE scandal and rules out delaying a return to contestability for the provision of training courses.
The State Liberals are demanding the Weatherill Government picks up any additional costs of students caught in the middle of the TAFE accreditation scandal following a scathing report from the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA).
