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Fee-Free TAFE Employment Outcomes

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Status: Answered, finished
Asked by: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Portfolio: Employment and Workplace Relations
Agency: Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Round: 2026-27 Budget estimates
Question No: SQ26-000994
Asked: 11 June 2026
Answer due: 23 July 2026

Question

1. During Estimates, the Department advised it does not currently collect graduate employment outcomes for Fee-Free TAFE participants. a. Has the Department undertaken any analysis, using other datasets, of employment outcomes for Fee-Free TAFE participants? b. If so, please provide that analysis. c. If not, why not? 2. Does the Department know what proportion of Fee-Free TAFE graduates are employed in the occupation for which they trained? a. If so, please provide the data by qualification category. b. If not, when does the Department expect this information to become available? 3. How does the Department assess whether Fee-Free TAFE is meeting workforce participation and skills shortage objectives in the absence of graduate employment outcome data?

Answer

Please see the attached PDF.

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