The state budget will commit $37.6 million to employ an additional 100 TasTAFE teachers over four years.
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The Liberals during this year's election campaign announced it would commit $98.6 million to reform the public training provider.
Skills Minister Sarah Courtney said the four-year plan for TasTAFE would be the centrepiece of more than $135 million to be included in the budget towards skills and training.
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The plan includes:
- $37.6 million to employ 100 extra TasTAFE teachers;
- $10 million for the TasTAFE virtual campus to increase access for regional students;
- $2 million for Skill Up! which provides free short courses to support job readiness;
- $4 million to increase TasTAFE access for rural and remote students with Libraries Tasmania;
- and $45 million for TasTAFE facility upgrades and the transition fund for new TasTAFE model.
Ms Courtney said TasTAFE provided training for around 20,000 students each year.
"Our reforms and investments are all about making sure TasTAFE can continue to deliver the training our community needs to grow the workforce of the future," she said.
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Ms Courtney said $20.5 million would be committed to a package which supported employers to take on unemployed people.
She said $13.8 million would go towards jobs hubs in the state's regional areas.
Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce chief executive Michael Bailey said the organisation was pleased to see investment into increasing skills and training in Tasmania.
We support the government's plan to reform TasTAFE and their TasTAFE investments will be particularly crucial to making sure we have a skilled local workforce into the future," he said.
The 2021-22 state budget will be released on Thursday.
It will be subject to four consecutive days of scrutiny hearings from September 6.
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Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
