Summary: <br> A new vocational education and training student loan scheme will aim at putting a stop to rorting by dodgy private colleges. Education Minister Simon Birmingham tells Michelle Grattan the new scheme is being built from the ground up. <br> <br> <br> <br> "First and foremost, [there will be] strong barriers to entry for the types of vocational education providers who can offer loans as part of it," he says. <br> <br> <br> <br> The reforms will see the number of courses available drop from than 800 to "somewhere around the 300 or 400 mark", Birmingham says. "There are a range of different areas that have been subsidised over recent years - but certainly very odd areas - such as Chinese veterinary medicine, will no longer make the cut. A number of I guess lifestyle-type courses is the best way to define some of them." <br> <br> <br> <br> Birmingham also talks on his negotiations for a new school funding agreement, and says he will soon announce a new higher education policy to start in 2018. <br> <br> <br> <br> ---<br> Music credit: "Natural", by Dlay on the Free Music Archive<br>
