The Australian Financial Review | Federal election 2016: polytechnics would bridge uni-TAFE divide The Australian Labor has pledged to solve the growing apprenticeship crisis while establishing 10 institutes of education that would straddle the middle ground between TAFE and university. The $430 million pitch for so-called Commonwealth Institutes of Education ... Private vocational courses cost taxpayers seven times as much as TAFE, analysis finds Is Labor's plan to create ten Institutes of Higher Education a good idea? Labor pledges $430 million for a new type of higher education |