TasTAFE aged care teacher Fiona Thollar and construction teacher Ben Wright have spoken out about the proposed changes that will see the institution move to a GBE in the coming years.

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"I am worried for my industry, I don't want to go to a Coroner's report because someone has died because a student received inadequate training," Ms Thollar said.

An aged care teacher, who works closely with industry, Ms Thollar said she'd been working with TasTAFE for nearly 20 years.

She said teachers were depressed and angry about how the government was treating them and felt left in the dark.

"We are feeling depressed, angry, more angry than depressed, insulted, scared and unsupported," she said.

Premier Peter Gutwein announced sweeping reforms to TasTAFE last week after he released the final report from the Premier's Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council.

The PESRAC report said feedback from industry and those consulted as part of the report had said TasTAFE wasn't meeting the needs of industry and wasn't flexible enough to meet demand.

However, Ms Thollar, and her colleague Ben Wright beg to differ.

Ms Thollar said she often was working at 6.30am to help handover students and work with the aged care homes where they were doing their training, and was often doing overtime and out-of-hours work for things like marking.

"If the Premier and the government think that's not flexible then they don't know the meaning of the word," she said.

Mr Wright, a construction teacher, said attracting teachers with better conditions, competitive pay and more funding would be a better plan than the proposed one by the government.

"We are lucky, construction is booming, we have the resources, but I see other departments that would really love to see more," he said.

However, he said despite the boom in the sector, it was still a struggle to attract quality teachers.

"We have had an opening here, and do you know how many people applied? None," he said.

Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff on Tuesday hosed down suggestions from the Australian Education Union and Labor that the changes in the PESRAC report was ultimately privatisation.

"These are the facts: TasTAFE is not being privatised," he said.

"Courses will continue to be heavily subsidised for students and TAFE will continue to have a community obligation to support all levels of learning."

He said the government's plan would result in more teachers and more course delivery in the regions and lead to more contemporary and fit-for-purpose facilities, training options and better pay.

Meanwhile, AEU state manager Brian Wightman said these terms and conditions had been raised at last year's enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations, but were knocked back.

EBA negotiations are due to resume at the end of the month and Mr Wightman again called on chief executive Grant Dreher to the table.

Mr Wightman said all TasTAFE teachers deserved and apology from the Premier.

"Not only is Peter Gutwein blaming teachers for his own government's failings, he has left them with great uncertainty around their jobs and futures," he said.

"The Premier should apologise, withdraw his TAFE privatisation plan and sit down respectfully with TasTAFE teachers who work so hard for Tasmanians every day."

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