Baird rejects TAFE sell-off claim

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published September 14, 2015

New South Wales Premier Mike Baird says any money raised from selling off TAFE campuses will be put back into the TAFE system, rejecting claims his government is downsizing public vocational education.

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