Access and selection to high demand TAFE courses [EIP 90/119]
This report attempts to provide the groundwork for understanding the nature of the access and selection issue for defining the goals of access policies and by comparing selection across systems, for suggesting without being prescriptive, ways in which some of the problems might be approached.
Abstract
A particular area of interest and concern in education in the late 80s was that of improving access and participation of disadvantaged groups through more equitable entry into courses which have a limited number of places. Very little research has addressed those issues in TAFE, despite the curtailment of expansion in the section and concomitant and increasing inability to place qualified students who wish to enter. TAFE authorities have shown increasing concern over the problem of excess demand and how best cope with it. Research on the periphery of the problem has highlighted the diversity of selection procedures already in place, not only between institutions, but within a single college. It has been suggested that many of the methods employed in TAFE are inappropriate, invalid and inefficient. Procedures have been developed with little or no understanding of appropriate strategies or instruments. This research was funded under the Evaluations and Investigations Programme (EIP).
Author(s)
Margaret Powles
Publication Details
| Type : |
Reports |
| Published : |
1990 |
Topics Covered
| Sectors : |
| Higher education |
| Training & skills |
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| Detailed :
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| Apprenticeships and vocational education |
| Equity and access |
| Resourcing education (pre 2000) |
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Availability
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