Successes and failures down under can guide FE reform here
Lessons from New Zealand and Australia can break FE and HE from their respective silos.
Across the world, vocational education systems wrestle with the same fundamental question: how can we build a tertiary system that genuinely serves learners, employers, and communities while avoiding the fragmentation that too often characterises post-16 education?
I’ve worked in both the UK and in Australasia. And I’ve seen first-hand the value of models that seek to unify further and higher education rather than separate them into competing silos.
The UK’s FE sector has much to be proud of, but also much it could learn from international practice – particularly in New Zealand and in the state of Victoria, Australia.
New Zealand’s reform of its vocational education system over the past five years has been bold. Polytechnics and industry training organisations were brought together under one umbrella, Te Pūkenga.
Author's summary: Lessons from New Zealand and Australia guide FE reform.
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