One of the biggest policy blunders Australia has made on the education front was to gradually close secondary technical schools between the 1970s and 1990s, in the false belief that it is more desirable for young people to go to university.
The blunders have continued in recent times, with funding for vocational education and training (VET) collapsing in favour universities, as well as the government shifting what little VET funding remained towards rorting private providers away from TAFEs:
