Unexpected $1.5 Billion in New Funding for Vocational Education in Australia – Budget 2017

Unexpected $1.5 Billion in New Funding for Vocational Education in Australia – Budget 2017

In a surprise 2017 Budget announcement from the Federal Government, $1.5 billion will be allocated to vocational training over the next four years, in an aim to deliver 300,000 new apprentices and trainees. This new program will focus on occupations that have a reliance on skilled migration and industries identified as growth areas in the future. There is…