Australian Technical College on the brink of salvation

The State Government’s last-minute change in attitude to support the ATC is welcome and, if properly followed through, would allow a successful training model to strengthen the state’s education system.

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Why our youth are opposing the premier

Late on a Friday afternoon in November, after most news items from the day had been put to bed, with little fanfare it was revealed that the State and Federal Labor Governments have done a deal to abolish the Australian Technical College Northern Tasmania. (The news just happened to coincide with the announcement of the [...]

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Labor to abolish the Australian Technical College

Late today it was revealed that the State and Federal Labor Governments have done a deal to abolish the Australian Technical College Northern Tasmania and transfer its purpose built buildings for integration into the Tasmanian Government’s failed Tasmania Tomorrow experiment.

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Video: The mess of “Tasmania Tomorrow”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXJE1zRPDw

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Australian Technical College under cloud of Labor skulduggery

Northern Tasmania’s Australian Technical College is under a cloud and we must fight to keep it.  The Rudd Labor Government hates the ATC model, the brainchild of the former Howard Government to help address the skills-shortage and to provide a new, industry-led model of vocational training and college education.

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