South West TAFE

A 13-day corruption inquiry into alleged false vocational education enrolments and improper hiring practices has wrapped up in Melbourne, putting on display a series of failings across several public institutions.

The husband of the trainer at the centre of a $2.2 million corruption investigation has admitted he forged enrolment and assessment documents to make them “look authentic”, the ongoing inquiry at IBAC hearing heard on Thursday.

A former TAFE executive managed the contract now being investigated by Victoria’s corruption watchdog on his own and personally intervened to ensure the trainer was given a qualification, the second day of public examinations has heard.

An IBAC anti-corruption inquiry has heard that the mother and daughter at the centre of an alleged vocational training scam referred to students as “sausages” to go through the “sausage machine”. David Donaldson reports from the hearings.