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Industry laments Tassie college closures

Published: November 04, 2009

The Master Builders Association says it is disappointed but unsurprised at the closure of the Australian Technical Colleges in Burnie and Launceston at the year end after Catholic Education Tasmania decided it could not afford to run them.

The Master Builders Executive Director Michael Kerschbaum says the industry had been concerned about the future of the colleges since August, ABC reported. Teachers will be out of a job when the colleges close.

"From our members point of view, the inconvenience is probably a lot less minimal than it is for the actual students and parents and obviously the staff at the ATC who are now going to have to find new jobs potentially," he said.

"They may not get absorbed into the public sector system."

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College closure upsets industry (ABC)

 

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  1. This story doesn't tell why this is happening and begs the question as to whether there are other facilities that will cater for the youth who have taken this course/direction in their studies or, was it simply an inevitasble outcome and belated response to what was considered, by some at the time, an ill-conceived attempt by the former Howard Government to establish this strucure in parallel with then existing facilities. If it's happening in Tasmania, will this be the outcome more universally. In other places, this vocational stream has been an added feature of mainstrem secondary education at a number of colleges, including Catholic Secondary colleges, where it seems to be working successfully. We have to hope that the students aren't left out on a limb ... and that industry doesn't suffer any setbacks in its ability to recruit fully-trained people to meet their continuing needs for a skilled workforce.

    Posted By: peter

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