The Albanese government if re-elected will provide a $10,000 incentive payment to apprentices to work in housing construction.
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An ‘apprenticeship’ system would undermine teaching’s role as a profession, and separate trainees from the evolving research and knowledge that university-based training provides.
Both major parties have promised more money to help boost apprenticeship numbers, including by providing incentives to employers. But history shows this isn’t the best way to spend public dollars.
With Congress so deadlocked in recent years, skills training is a rare example of the two parties actually working together.
