The biggest problem facing the country’s leading training provider, TAFE NSW, is aspects of the award under which teachers are employed which is so generous they only have to teach for 36 weeks a year, according to a former deputy director-generalof TAFE NSW, Robin Shreeve.

In December, a damning investigation by the NSW auditor into a failed restructure of NSW TAFE found that governance in the organisation was “not fit for purpose” and its commercial objectives conflicted with the social objectives demanded of it by law.