THE TASMANIAN Skills Institute wants to be cut out of Tasmania Tomorrow.
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It wants to be given ownership of its campuses and to run its own corporate services - effectively returning to the TAFE Tasmania model.
Institute chairman James Cretan said yesterday that Tasmania Tomorrow hindered business efficiencies.
"We want out ... We want to be separated and run our business," Mr Cretan said.
The institute was formed after TAFE Tasmania was abolished late in 2008 to make way for Tasmania Tomorrow's new structure, which also includes the Academy and Polytechnic.
Two weeks ago Skills Institute chief executive Malcolm White asked institute staff to cut costs and Mr Cretan confirmed that Mr White and his team had been asked to look at how they could save money.
Last week Education Minister Lin Thorp offered Northern and North-West teachers 10 options to restructure Tasmania Tomorrow, which she told the teachers had failed.
Yesterday, Ms Thorp said she was still developing the government's response to its consultations about the post-year-10 reforms.
In a letter to staff on Friday, Mr Cretan said Tasmania Tomorrow red tape added a financial risk for the Skills Institute. He said it was hindering the transfer of assets.
"Despite our best efforts, the transfer of ownership of ex-TAFE buildings and other assets to the TSI has not occurred and this must be rectified," Mr Cretan said in the letter.
"The risks have come from our financial and structural make-up following the implementation of the Tasmania Tomorrow reforms."
He said shared corporate services such as payroll, administration and information technology cost the institute $7.3 million a year and it was affecting the institute's bottom line.
Mr Cretan said the high cost of shared corporate services could be reined in.
"The structure is not working for us, we want to run the board and provide efficient teaching and learning," he said.
He said he had briefed Ms Thorp about the institute's business challenges.
He said he also had in-principal agreement from the state government for services now being shared to return to the institute.
"We are pushing hard and there is some frustration because this is critical to our sustainability," Mr Cretan said.
