Save Creative Writing in TAFE

The following link details the unfairness facing some students wishing to enter Writing/Arts/Media programs at Victorian TAFES (courses that provide both job opportunties and higher level study options). The current Coalition government has rolled back some of the Labor government's most obnoxious 'SKILLS REFORM' 'innovations' BUT Eligibility requirements for govenrment funded places are still excluding many mature adults with ageing or irrelevant qualifications - or who are experiencing economic hardship - from undertaking study in these (and many other) courses. See link below to AGE Newspaper article for an example of the consequences for some PWE would be students. It is to be hoped that the new Coalition government changes these ill-conceived, badly monitored and ideologically motivated (privatisation at all costs) eligibility and contestability changes, changes introduced by Jacinta Allan former Minister for VET education:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/tafe-fee-rise-may-write-off-sarahs-creative-ambitions-20090710-dg44.html

The destruction of creative options in these courses (CERT IV and DIP) is thus only part of the problem - no use having great units in the program to study if no ordinary mortal can afford to study them!