ECCV congratulates the Victorian Government on holding this review into the post-secondary education sector in Victoria. We are delighted to have this opportunity to examine Vocational Education and Training (VET) from the perspective of multicultural Victoria.
This submission will look at the areas in which we believe that post-secondary education is failing to provide opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Victorians, look at examples of innovative models and best practice in this regard, and make recommendations about how post-secondary education could be improved to better serve diverse Victoria.
We will particularly examine the barriers that present themselves to people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in accessing VET, such as literacy and numeracy, the role of Foundation Studies and pre-accredited training, the complexities of navigating the sector, thin markets in regional Victoria, fees, and lack of student support services.
We will then look at a few examples of how these issues have been overcome through innovative new models, which particularly emphasise the importance of collaboration between large and small training providers, community organisations, and employers and industry. Our hope is that these examples will point the way to the sort of new models that the Government will consider supporting more widely to truly ensure post-secondary education meets the needs of multicultural Victoria.
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