[Greens-Media] Media Alert: Greens to launch bill to save TAFE in Wollongong

[John Kaye]

Stop the cuts and privatisation:
Greens launch bill to save TAFE

Media alert: 11 November 2013

Greens NSW MP John Kaye will be joined by teachers, staff and students
outside the Wollongong TAFE campus on Monday 11 November to launch his bill
to stop the destruction of TAFE.

When:    11:30 am Monday 11 November
Where:    Outside entrance to Wollongong TAFE campus, Foley’s Lane, North
Wollongong
Who:    Greens NSW MP John Kaye
Andrew Holland, Organiser, Public Service Association of NSW
Rob Long, Organiser, NSW Teachers Federation

Background

State and federal governments, both Labor and Coalition, have driven TAFE
to the brink of collapse, despite the massive economic and social benefits
of publicly provided vocational education and training.

The Greens TAFE Changes Moratorium (Secure Future for Public Provision of
Vocational Education and Training) Bill 2013 will be introduced into the
NSW parliament in the next fortnight and aims to:
¨    restore TAFE funding by reversing massive budget cuts,
¨     stop rising fees and job losses, and
¨     freeze the O'Farrell government's aggressive Smart and Skilled market
that would create a race to the bottom with low cost, low quality private
providers.

The Greens are launching the Bill in the Illawarra because of the
extraordinary importance of TAFE to the future of the region. Without a
strong public provider of vocational education and training, the region
will face rising youth unemployment, increasing levels of inequality and
disadvantage and an economy that is unable to grow.

For more information:       John Kaye 0407 195 455

Copies of the bill and other campaign materials will be available at the
launch

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John Kaye
Greens NSW MP
phone: 0407 195 455
web: www.john.nsw.greens.org.au
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