Tehan can find AUD 3 Billion to fund childcare by diverting funds from Practical Legal Training courses that have been shown to be ineffective, and provide for an already over-supplied market for lawyers: An opportunity for the Law Council Australia to show leadership, and advance the cause of women
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Minister For Education
Dan Tehan
The Minister for Education Dan Tehan has announced the end of free childcare Parents and womens' groups have protested, arguing that they will have to make an impossible choice between work and caring for their children, given ongoing COVID19 restrictions.
Meanwhile Tehan continues to fund Practical Legal Training which even lawyers say is of little use, and which provides an oversupplied market for lawyers. This is strange, given Tehan's argument that the childcare subsidy is being removed in order to build demand and provide a price signal to the market for childcare services.
The market for the supply of PLT services is distorted, the case of the College Of Law Sydney being a good example . Diverting the capitalised funding of AUD 3 Billion that will be provided the College Of Law can easily fund childcare, and prevent the cut in funding.
This is also an opportunity for the Law Council Australia to show leadership, and advance the cause of women by backing a cut in funding for PLT courses.
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Morrison Govt can afford AUD 3 Billion to support & re-train retrenched workers by withdrawing funding allocated for the College Of Law NSW PLT : An opportunity for Law Council Australia & NSW Law Society to show leadership & admit that their PLT is of little practical value
March 21, 2020
Dan Tehan
Meanwhile Tehan continues to fund Practical Legal Training which even lawyers say is of little use, and which provides an oversupplied market for lawyers. This is strange, given Tehan's argument that the childcare subsidy is being removed in order to build demand and provide a price signal to the market for childcare services.
The market for the supply of PLT services is distorted, the case of the College Of Law Sydney being a good example . Diverting the capitalised funding of AUD 3 Billion that will be provided the College Of Law can easily fund childcare, and prevent the cut in funding.
This is also an opportunity for the Law Council Australia to show leadership, and advance the cause of women by backing a cut in funding for PLT courses.
TO BE READ WITH
Morrison Govt can afford AUD 3 Billion to support & re-train retrenched workers by withdrawing funding allocated for the College Of Law NSW PLT : An opportunity for Law Council Australia & NSW Law Society to show leadership & admit that their PLT is of little practical value
March 21, 2020
by Ganesh Sahathevan
In Malaysia deprived of the protective mantle of the NSW and Australian legal establishment the College Of Law's problems became all too apparent
The Morrison Government has remained silent on the matter of providing support and training for workers, especially casual workers who have and will be retrenched in the days to come.
There have been requests for the Government to provide paid worker re-training, but again, the Morrison Government has kept quite.
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia CEO, Peter Strong, said the government should consider giving training vouchers to employers to give staff skills training while they were out of work during any shutdown period.
In Malaysia deprived of the protective mantle of the NSW and Australian legal establishment the College Of Law's problems became all too apparent
The Morrison Government has remained silent on the matter of providing support and training for workers, especially casual workers who have and will be retrenched in the days to come.
There have been requests for the Government to provide paid worker re-training, but again, the Morrison Government has kept quite.
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia CEO, Peter Strong, said the government should consider giving training vouchers to employers to give staff skills training while they were out of work during any shutdown period.
“A training wage is less than the minimum wage, but it’s still better than Newstart."
Funding is always the issue especially with a recession more likely than not, but this is precisely the reason why the allocations of all departments need to be audited. With regards training it has been reported on this blog that some AUD40-50 Million is allocated every year to The College Of Law Sydney for the provision of the Professional Legal Training Programme that is a prerequisite for anyone wanting to be admitted to practise law in NSW. As reported, the funds are being misallocated; the PLT is probably better funded out of the TAFE budget (assuming the College Of Law PLT meets TAFE standards).
The Law Council Australia and the NSW Law Society can show some leadership by recommending that the Government redirect FEE HELP funding from the College Of Law which would not exist without the LCA and NSW Law Society's acceptance of a course many lawyers will admit has little if any real value.
The Law Council Australia and the NSW Law Society can show some leadership by recommending that the Government redirect FEE HELP funding from the College Of Law which would not exist without the LCA and NSW Law Society's acceptance of a course many lawyers will admit has little if any real value.
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