Today the TAFE Community Alliance is celebrating National TAFE Day, acknowledging the work of the teachers and educators who have made TAFE institutions what they are today.
The TAFE Community Alliance is calling upon the NSW government to re-support funding into TAFE institutions nationwide, to provide better education opportunities for students.
Linda Simon, spokesperson for the alliance, says that TAFE is the most important part of the vocational education and training system in Australia.
"When you see news come out from the governments or from the opposition party, too often they talk about the importance of schools, they talk about the importance of universities, but they don't recognise the importance of vocational education and training".
Simon says that both Labor and the Greens have election policies which call for a restoration of funding to TAFE and also recognise the importance of TAFE in the community. Simon also states that both parties call for various changes that will ensure Australian tax-payers do not continue to be ripped off millions by unscrupulous education providers.
"The Alliance acknowledges their attempts to 'right this wrong' before it is too late".
