Two months ago, the Mackenzie Institute released research arguing that the Australian economy had been “hollowed out” by policies that preference higher education over vocational alternatives:
The institute condemns the 2008 Bradley review – which spawned Australia’s recently abandoned demand-driven system of higher education funding – for producing a glut of graduates and exacerbating the funding decline in vocational training, particularly among public technical and further education colleges.
The paper blames the Bradley review for cultivating one of the worst skills mismatch profiles in the world…
