Geelong's TAFE teachers and students are pleading with the public to come out and support them and help save the TAFE system, when they rally against state budget cuts today.

The Gordon's set to lose at least $14-million dollars in the next financial year as the Baillieu government rips $300-million out of the TAFE sector.

State-wide it will mean more than two thousand job losses and the scrapping of hundreds of courses.

COLIN LONG from the NTEU says already the Gordon's now been forced to cut Distance Education courses:

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Today’s rally will begin in Johnstone Park at 12.15.