House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-06-04 Daily Xml

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Vocational Education and Training

Mr TRELOAR (Flinders) (14:54): My question is to the Minister for Regional Development. How does the minister see the significant reduction in places for Certificate III in Agriculture as possibly supporting the government's commitment to regional development, food production and agriculture?

Members interjecting:

Mr Whetstone: And you guys are sitting back there, hey?

The SPEAKER: The member for Chaffey is on two warnings. The Deputy Speaker tossed him under the sessional orders earlier in the week. We wouldn't want to see him go again.

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector) (14:55): The entire point about the way that the WorkReady program is being constructed is to allow people to study something that will lead to a job. What we don't want is to have courses where people are spending time getting a qualification for which there is not enough work. So, with the very heavy data-driven process that has been gone through to determine where there are vacancies and where there is an inadequate number of qualified people, we'll have a fully subsidised approach.