The Education Squeeze

An episode of the Stick Together podcast, hosted by Annie Mclouglin, Justin Mullaly, Desiree Cai, titled "The Education Squeeze" was published on August 13, 2019.

August 13, 2019 · Stick Together

Summary

Today we are looking at education. As the Morrison Government is fumbling around in the dark when it comes to it’s support of Australian workers and their education needs the Liberal party one trick pony does another turn of the carnival ground with Morrison pushing to privatise TAFE. We get a view on the announcement from the Australian Education Union.On the funding of Universities front the Government has announced $80 million of tied funding this follows a two years $2.2 billion funding freeze for the sector – there are some pretty scrawny chickens in that hen house I think.We get a perspective from the National Union of Students on the new funding regime.

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