Review of TAFE Governance in SA 2002

A review written to examine concerns that SA TAFE system was being stretched beyond its capacity, it gives some perspective to where we are in TAFE today:

The overwhelming impression we gained from those who offered us advice and provided us with information was that the TAFE system had been largely leaderless in recent years. The moves toward the corporatisation of the TAFE Institutes appear to have been an abdication from the management of the system. Corporatisation was a policy doomed to failure. The evidence from our investigations is that the Institutes had not been prepared for corporatisation and had neither the management systems nor the management expertise to successfully accomplish the transfer of responsibility.