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dc.contributor.authorNakar, Sonal
dc.contributor.authorBagnall, Richard G
dc.contributor.authorHodge, Steven
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T13:03:48Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T13:03:48Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0311-6999
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s13384-018-0257-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/379732
dc.description.abstractThis paper reviews the nature and implementation of the Australian VET FEE-HELP (VFH) policy initiative: a scheme introduced in 2008 to extend income-contingent loans to the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. We argue that the implementation of the scheme has been seriously flawed, leading to a range of counter-educational and unethical practices on the part of some VET providers. An ongoing research project into the impact of the changing contemporary cultural context of VET on the creation of moral dilemmas facing VET teachers in their work has identified four dilemmas that were seen by teachers to be significantly driven by the VFH scheme. Those dilemmas arose from (1) unethical student recruitment and enrolment practices, (2) overlooking traditional educational standards, (3) constraining teacher responsiveness and (4) manipulating learning assessment. The identifying teachers saw themselves as being professionally unprepared to handle such moral dilemmas, leading to discomfort and inappropriate handling of the dilemmas.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom383
dc.relation.ispartofpageto400
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThe Australian Educational Researcher
dc.relation.ispartofvolume45
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode39
dc.titleA reflective account of the VET FEE-HELP initiative as a driver of ethical dilemmas for vocational education teachers in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBagnall, Richard G.
gro.griffith.authorHodge, Steven M.
gro.griffith.authorNakar, Sonal


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