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March 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A FURTHER 400,000 youngsters will take up trade training and more will complete their studies under a Government plan which needs the backing of the states.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard today said the package of measures would respond to the fact that 2.5 skilled jobs are being created for every unskilled position.
That means the competition for low-paid, low-qualification jobs will intensify and youngsters will increasingly need training to get employment.
“Today 4.1 million working Australians do not have the skills necessary for entry to the key growth sectors of our economy. These workers earn up to $10,000 a year less than their more skilled peers,” the Prime Minister told an Australian Industry Group conference.
“They have an employment rate of less than 60 per cent. And they get locked out of new opportunities because demand for jobs with high-level skills is running at 2.5 times the rate of unskilled jobs.
“Put simply, they are less likely to have a job.”
Releasing what she called “a skills blueprint to meet the demands of the Asian Century”, the Prime Minister re-announced plans for a HECS-style funding proposal for vocational education and training (VET) students, and confirmed that $1.7 billion allocated in the last Budget would go to states to spruce up trade training.
“Indeed we are negotiating measures with the states and territories to ensure that around 375,000 additional students will complete their qualification over the next five years,” said Ms Gillard.
States also will be asked to improve VET retention rates which Ms Gillard said represented a human tragedy.
“A test of this reform will be not just how many students sign up for training, but how many complete,” said Ms Gillard.
“At the moment only 30 per cent of students, on average, complete a VET course. That is an enormous waste of public funds, a big loss of potential skills, and a human tragedy as well.
“With better approaches to training content and delivery, teaching quality and student support, I believe we can vastly increase the completion of VET qualifications.”
TAFE students will get an identity number to help them keep track of what they have studied and should be studying under a plan released today by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
States will act to improve the retention rate of vocational students, now at a dismal 30 per cent, and trade training teachers will have their standards boosted.
The Prime Minister said the measure was part of a package to ensure “the long neglect of vocational education was at an end.
“We’ve witnessed a shift in our economic interests from America and Europe to Asia in a single generation. We’re seeing shares of employment and activity move towards services and high tech production,” Ms Gillard said.
“We’re seeing our dollar rise to sustained high levels due to our commodity exports and confidence in our currency and bonds.
It is a major structural realignment of our economy; an externally-led change as big as any we have seen in 200 years. Like the 1980s, it is a time to choose, to chart a conscious and deliberate pathway to sustained prosperity, or face the alternative of mediocre growth or even decline.”
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