14 December 2009
Speaking up for my friends and for a fair go
The decision to increase the TAFE fees will mean that more people will have less say over how they live their lives.
The decision to train or retrain in order to work in an environment where you see a future is a really important right, which is going to be taken away by these changes.
I have friends who are currently at TAFE who would never have been able to study if they had enrolled in 2010. Instead they would have had to stay unemployed or work in low-paid, temporary jobs that weren't going anywhere.
I believe that everyone should have a right to free or at least affordable education and to pursue careers or interests at any time in their lives.
The changes are going to make Australia a much worse place to live in, a place where choices are things that only wealthy people get to make.
— Posted by Sam Stoker, Kew
I agree Alhaji. So many Tafe students are from low income backgrounds or are mature learners with many other life issues to focus on, parenting, working, migration settlement etc. The mix of people that has always made Tafe such an interesting place to work and study is now under threat and I swing between being enormously sad and enormously angry.....
Deborah Rosenberg, , 09 JAN 2010 11:38
Majority of us TAFE students are refugees doing low income earning jobs or working part time having other family members to look after. Please Govt don't increase TAFE fees for us, if not we will continue to be iletrates.
Alhaji Sankoh, Dandenong, 15 DEC 2009 15:43
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