Multisectoral education: why bother?
26 October 2011, by Professor Anne Jones
The Victorian Government’s recent decision to cut VET funding delivers a triple whammy to universities. We suffer the funding cuts levied on all VET providers for seven industry areas and the cuts imposed on all large TAFE institutions. In addition we have the difficulty of managing university budgets where a significant proportion of the revenue is greatly below Commonwealth funding levels. This does cause me to reflect on why we are multisectoral.
For Victoria University, as is the case for all Victorian multisectoral universities, there wasn’t a Damascene policy moment that led to our multisectoral sector status rather there were a series of decisions not to change what was already there.
