Australian Technical Colleges

Australian Technical Colleges

Australian Technical Colleges (ATCs) are a class of Australian senior secondary school funded by the Australian federal government. They deliver vocational education courses to Year 11 and 12 students, predominantly 16-18 year olds. Some colleges have a single campus, while others have multiple campuses.

According to the Australian constitution, education is the responsibility of the state and territory governments; although the federal government does partially fund private schools, vocational and higher education. Vocational education funding however was previously funnelled through the states and territories. These colleges' direct federal funding is thus unusual for this reason alone. Their appearance is part of the breakdown of cooperative federalism caused by the increasing centralism of the national government and party-political differences with the state and territory governments. Another expression of this was the demise of the former Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) which expressed the political and industrial settlement on training of the 1990s.

In 2005, the federal government chose the areas in which these schools were to be established, then advertised for tenders. Some successful tenderers were state or territory governments, others were church groups, others were for-profit companies. Some were combinations of these. Thus some resulting ATCs were government schools, while others are private schools that are predominantly government funded, and at least one exists as a campus-within-a-campus at a state school and a church school. Such a mixed sectoral body of schools had not existed in Australia before, nor had any government founded a private school. Both these firsts also make the colleges unusual.

Five of these colleges opened in 2006, while twenty are planned to open in 2007 and 2008 [http://www.australiantechnicalcolleges.gov.au/locations/] .

See also

* Apprenticeship
* Technical and Further Education (TAFE)
* Vocational education

External links

* [http://www.australiantechnicalcolleges.gov.au/ Australian Technical Colleges]
* [http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Hardgrave/2005/07/h001150705.asp Media Release: Minister for Vocational and Technical Education, Gary Hardgrave "Australian Technical Colleges: the first tranche"]


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