MCTEE Outcome
LANDMARK DECISION ON NATIONAL REGULATOR
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, welcomed a landmark decision by the majority of State and Territory Education Ministers to support the formation of a new, independent national regulator for the vocational education and training sector. The regulator will be responsible for undertaking the registration and audit of registered training providers across the country. The agreement was made at the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) meeting in Canberra today, with a framework for the new regulation to be agreed by the end of May 2010 and the regulator beginning operation from 2011. Ministers will be recommending to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) that the new vocational education regulator will be a Commonwealth statutory authority with the Victorian and Western Australia Ministers supported the consideration of other models to achieve national regulation.
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, welcomed a landmark decision by the majority of State and Territory Education Ministers to support the formation of a new, independent national regulator for the vocational education and training sector. The regulator will be responsible for undertaking the registration and audit of registered training providers across the country. The agreement was made at the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) meeting in Canberra today, with a framework for the new regulation to be agreed by the end of May 2010 and the regulator beginning operation from 2011. Ministers will be recommending to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) that the new vocational education regulator will be a Commonwealth statutory authority with the Victorian and Western Australia Ministers supported the consideration of other models to achieve national regulation.
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