Documents show TasTAFE plans to cut 118 full-time equivalent positions, including 63 teaching roles by 2030, and course fees could go up by 7 per cent.
Tas TAFE plans to cut 63 full-time equivalent teaching roles by 2030. A leaked document from Tas TAFE shows the organisation wants to cut 118 jobs, including 63 teaching roles by 2030.
TasTAFE cut 12 courses last year, but says no more significant changes to its offering will be made. TasTAFE plans to cut 118 full-time roles — more than half of them teaching roles — by 2030 in a bid to get its finances in order. Documents obtained by the state opposition show the staff cuts, which equate to around 14 per cent of the workforce level from 2024-25, would save $13 million.
They also reveal the public training provider plans to jack prices up by 7 per cent in 2027, and reallocate unused funds from 2021 state election commitments. The entire restructure package saves $15.46 million, once $11.58 million in restructuring costs including redundancy payments are accounted for. In 2024-25, TasTAFE employed 865 full-time equivalents , made up of 480 teachers, and 385 non-teachers.
Under the proposed restructure, 63 teaching roles would be cut and 55 non-teachers would go, leaving a total FTE of 747 by 2030.
"Skilled industries need skilled workers, trained by skilled teachers and TAFE is an invaluable institution to make sure that happens. " TasTAFE leadership, and Skills and Jobs Minister Felix Ellis were questioned about restructure pans in budget estimates hearings in Hobart today. Josh Willie says TasTAFE is an invaluable institution for training Tasmanian workers. TasTAFE chair Dr Norman Baker said he was focused on the financial outcome of the restructure.
"So if we can achieve our financial outcomes by reducing less staff, then that is definitely the principle we are operating on," he told the committee. "We've got lots of cash in the bank," he said.
An email from Dr Baker to TasTAFE staff earlier this year said the organisation was attempting to find $45 million in savings over the next four years, "We've introduced a range of changes which gets us to about halfway, which buys us another two or three years towards that four year budget estimate," he told the committee.
"In that time I'll be driving extra revenue growth and I'll be looking to both the state and Commonwealth as time goes by. "Last year, TasTAFE cut 12 courses including fashion, screen and media, laboratory technician, meat handling, and visual arts courses. Dr Baker said the organisation had undertaken a thorough review of courses, and there would be "no more significant changes to our course profile".
"Our course profile, the courses that we offer across the state, are really strongly aligned with the workforce needs of all of the regions that we serve, and with the funding deed we receive,"Price hike on the way"We need to skill up Tasmanians, not make it harder," Mr Willie said, asking if the decision would be reviewed. Dr Baker said the 7 per cent price rise had not been given final approval.
"That's what's currently in our calculations, but we haven't finished our governance processes through our board for approval for next year's prices yet," Dr Baker said, noting that prices had increased by 1.7 per cent last year. He said those enrolled in fee free courses would continue not to pay, and concessions would continue to apply.
Dr Baker said 75 per cent of TasTAFE's funding came from the state and federal governments, with the organisation looking to increase its revenue sources.
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