Securing Jobs for Your Future

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Premier John Brumby and Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation Jacinta Allan today launched Securing Jobs for Your Future. 

Students and the training sector are the big winners in today’s announcement of a $316 million Victorian Government overhaul of the sector. This investment will create 172,000 new training places and provide a Government supported training place for every eligible Victorian who wants one.

Key features of Securing Jobs for Your Future include:

  • The establishment of a Victorian Training Guarantee. This Australian-first initiative, gives people the entitlement to access Government-subsided training at any time so long as they keep moving up the qualification scale for skills;
  • The creation of up to 172,000 additional training places;
  • We will fund the hiring of an extra 900 teachers and 500 non-teaching staff;
  • We will support greater student choice – by enabling eligible students to train at either public or community providers, including a much broader range of private providers;
  • We will create the opportunity, for the first time, for students to access finance to study in TAFEs and private RTOs;
  • We will boost the workforce and IT capacity of the TAFE and Adult Community Education sectors;
  • We will give businesses support to make the training system easier to access for their workforces; and we will redesign the system to make VET easier to navigate for students and business.

 

Fact Sheets 

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