SCHOOLS IN DICKSON TO MISS OUT
SCHOOLS IN DICKSON TO MISS OUT ON THEIR OWN TRADES TRAINING CENTRES
In a blow to Dickson secondary schools, Kevin Rudd has broken his promise to put a trades training centre in every Australian secondary school, the Federal Member for Dickson, Peter Dutton said today.
Peter Dutton said because the funding offered to each school was so limited, schools were having to cluster together to build anything that resembled a trades training ‘centre’.
“This means there won’t be a trades training centre in every school in Dickson like Kevin Rudd explicitly promised last year,” Peter Dutton said.
“Kevin Rudd promised a trades training centre in all 2650 schools and yet yesterday, after eight months, the Rudd Government announced funding for centres is just 34 schools or 1.3 per cent.
“The funding is so paltry for schools in Dickson it will update the woodwork room at best – not create anything that resembles a specialised ‘centre’.”
Peter Dutton said the former Coalition Government spent on average $24 million on each Australian Technical College while the Rudd Government was offering each school on average just $900,000 over 10 years to build a ‘centre’.
“This policy is a cruel hoax that won’t do anything to encourage more apprentices or address the skills crisis in Dickson,” Peter Dutton said.
“The Rudd Government’s idea of creating a trades training centre is to turn up at each school with a new sign to rename the metalwork room the metalwork ‘centre’.
“To provide proper trades training, Dickson needs dedicated, properly funded Australian Technical Colleges which have scale, local industry input and expert trades teachers.”
Peter Dutton said Kevin Rudd had failed to deliver on giving every upper secondary school student their own computer and now he’s failed to deliver on giving every school its own trades training centre.
“So much for an education revolution,” Peter Dutton said.
