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The argument of this article is that TAFE teachers have to some extent been excluded from negotiations on links between the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the private business sector to control post-compulsory education and training in TAFE and universities. The author maintains that the lack of involvement in the CBT learning debate is frustrating classroom practitioners in TAFE. Show less

The 'Berlin Memorandum on the Modernisation of Vocational Education and Training' is a strategic paper prepared by the advisory committee of the Berlin Senate's Department of Labour, Vocational Education and Training and Women's Affairs, in September 1999. The document provides an analysis of vocational education and training and employment policies. It identifies existing problems and presents approaches for addressing these shortcomings as a starting point for discussion. Seven guidelines have been developed to assist the German vocational education and training system adapt to the social and technological challenges of the coming decades. The Berlin Memorandum was handed over to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which plans to take the memorandum into account in its current work. This article provides a summary of the Memorandum's main points. Show less