Mr Joyce and Tertiary: the dangers of simplistic thinking

The notion that Mr Joyce has ideas about MED, tertiary provision and innovation is very worrying.  Mr Joyce has shown himself to have ideas of one sort only - those that commit Government to the slavish support of business interests. The distance that exists between innovation, creativity and education and those interests is unknown territory for Mr Joyce, who seems to be one of Nature's very elemental thinkers. My suggestion is that Mr Joyce thinks twice, and perhaps consults with people who know something about these areas, before he takes forward any thoughts that he might have. Above all. in a skill-short global economy, these are areas in which people are very mobile. Ill-considered and simplistic interventions can have long term adverse impacts that are difficult to reverse.