MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 18 November
AUTHORITY WELCOMES ANSWERS ON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FUTURE
The Cradle Coast Authority has welcomed the State’s decision to provide certainty for students of the Australian Technical College, and adopt successful features of the model into the State system. The Authority wrote to the State and Federal Education Ministers and the ATC Board last week, urging them to come to the region to explain what would happen if or when the college closed. Today, Executive Chairman, Roger Jaensch, was thankful that at least one of the three bodies involved was prepared to come forward and take responsibility for what happens next: ‘It’s great that there is going to be continuity for the young men and women who have started at the ATC, and might otherwise have dropped out of learning forever’ ‘It’s great that the Government is prepared to adopt things that students and employers like about the ATC as new features of Tasmania’s education system, rather than lose them altogether’ ‘But because this is all so new, so late in the year, someone needs to come up here now to tell the families and businesses involved how this is going to work’ ‘There are even more questions now than there were yesterday – but at least now someone has taken responsibility for coming up with the answers. We should all be grateful for that’
Contact
Roger Jaensch, Executive Chairman
6431 6285, 0438 316 285