More than 300 guests attended the launch in Sydney on Friday night of the TDA National Scholarships Foundation and the Mick Young Scholarships fundraising Dinner.
'Mick's Big Night Out' attracted a packed house including the NSW Governor, Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Commonwealth and State Ministers and MPs, TAFE Institutes, Industry Skills Councils, and business.
Policies
TAFE Directors Australia provides its members with a mechanism to make effective national input to VET policy formation. TDA contributes to various policy forums, including to policy formulation initiated and coordinated by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Skills Australia, the National Quality Council (NQC), along with VET coordinating authorities in states and territories.
This section provides information about:
Scholarships
The Australian Taxation Office has approved tax deductibility for an initiative of the TDA National Board to launch an Australia-wide technical & further education scholarships philanthropy foundation.
The National Board of TDA has registered the TDA National Scholarships Foundation, with plans to launch the Foundation next year, with a special event dinner planned in Sydney, for 1st March 2013.
The purpose is to make every effort to support TAFE students under the proposed COAG-approved National Entitlement to Training, which will widen student income contingent loans (ICL) in technical and further education courses.
Tuition Assistance
On 26 May 2011, Senator the Hon Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, approved the extension of the membership eligibility provisions of the TDA Australian Students Tuition Assurance Scheme (ASTAS). In doing so, the Government has made it possible for there to be full competition and choice in tuition assurance.
TAFE Directors Australia is pleased to announce that membership of the TDA Australian Students Tuition Assurance Scheme is now available to non-university Higher Education Providers and Approved VET Providers.
Members
TDA enjoys membership from Institutes across all Australia's states and territories, and "TDA" now is the body representing the TAFE sector on Australia's vocational education qualifications and policy bodies. It provides members with a number of benefits, including:
- A forum for cooperation and exchange
- Opportunities for their own professional development in a peer setting
- A mechanism to coordinate national representation of TAFE on key committees and boards
- A mechanism to make effective national input into policy formation
