Co-operation Between TAPE and Industry

Abstract

While the hopes of a resource driven resurgence in Australian industry ran free, it was commonplace for the optimists to suggest that we faced almost unlimited prospects and would be hindered only by a shortage of skilled manpower. Now it seems that the prospects have turned out to be less rosy than it was covenient to paint them. Nevertheless, given the rapidity of technological change and the challenge of international competition, we still need to pay very serious attention to the problems of training for industrial skills. In this paper we discuss some aspects of co- operation in this fiels.