All things to all people

VET as a vehicle of post-Covid recovery

Featured in

Buy $27.99
  • Published 20220127
  • ISBN: 978-1-92221-65-8
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

ON 16 JULY 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the launch of the $2 billion JobTrainer Fund. The media release declared that

JobTrainer will ensure more Australians have the chance to reskill or upskill to fill the jobs on the other side of this crisis. COVID-19 is unprecedented but I want Australians to be ready for the sorts of jobs that will come as we build back and recover. The jobs and skills we’ll need as we come out of the crisis are not likely to be the same as those that were lost.

Already a subscriber? Sign in here

Share article

Tweet
Share
Share
Pin
0 Shares

Never miss an edition

Subscribe to great writing. Print and digital bundles to suit every budget

Subscribe

About the author

Kira Clarke

Kira Clarke is a senior research fellow in the Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, and a national expert in...

More from this edition

Remaking universities

EssayCAN WE GRIEVE not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young talents denied a chance to...

Postcards from a liminal zone

GR OnlineHealth professionals and educators have long appreciated the benefits of personalising and sharing experiences to allow people to work through what might be traumatic – to make sense of it, to understand it and to appreciate what really matters to them.

The reading revolution

ReportageWHEN BOB FITZGERALD, Chief Inspector of Blacktown Police Area Command, was in Year 4, he stole a book from a library in South Australia....

Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.