30 July 2010
Higher fees create a sub-class of employees
My disabled daughter has been directly impacted by the TAFE changes. She has completed a traineeship at Certificate III and now has been told she has no longer a job with her employer who has cleverly sold on his business and taken all incentives for her with no obligation to her future in the fast food outlet.
She is now faced with unemployment or having to pay full fees for a Certificate IV with no concession available! NOT much of a future career choice for a 24 year old.
Think again Skills Victoria: there are a great many young people in this situation, particularly those of a low socio-economic status.
My daughter has a good study and training history with NMIT, her preferred TAFE, and she now has to try to navigate the training sector herself to find what she can afford. This is an impossible task for someone with an intellectual impairment and there is no guarantee that her new provider will have the capacity to manage her disability and support her.
She has no prospect of future employment without the necessary bit of paper.
This policy is flawed and needs urgent attention before another sub-class of employees is created.
— Posted by Bernadette Gigliotti
If you put a sticker on the back of your car then you may experience some one desperately tail gating as they try to read your sticker.
Don't be alarmed as it has happened to me twice ,just remember that more and more people are becoming more aware of the great Brumby rip off of working Victorians.
Mine is the Mauve Magna on the bumper in the blog.
Brett, Forest Hill, 03 AUG 2010 10:39
I despair at the way we don't invest in our communities in Victoria any more. Young people like Bernadette's daughter are our future. They deserve nurturing and support. Instead, necessities like education have become yet another means of exploiting people under the misguided principles of 'user pays' and 'market forces'. It simply isn't good enough and we should all do something about this sort cynical disregard for our wellbeing by our bureaucrats and politicians.
Kookaburra, Killarney, 31 JUL 2010 00:48
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