The documents, also leaked to ABC Television, show Swinburne is is preparing to abandon more than a dozen course offerings, including automotive, building, cooking, food processing, government and public safety. It is also preparing to lift its fees by between 22 per cent and 26 per cent over three years.

Victoria University has indicated it will be sacking 99 teaching staff and closing courses including in events and tourism, boat building, animal studies. It also wants the Government to let it sell its Sunbury site.

Regional TAFEs will be among the hardest hit. Bendigo has signalled job losses of 100 by the end of the year, while Sunraysia has said it plans to cut spending by $3 million and increase tuition fees. Chisholm Institute's Mornington Peninsula, Bass Coast and Cranbourne campuses are described in the document as "at risk", with a decision to made over whether to close them to be made over the next year.

Swinburne says it intends to "cease all delivery of higher education and TAFE programs at Lilydales by July 1 next year, while its Prahran campus will close in January 2014.

Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews described the documents as "extraordinary", accusing Premier Ted Baillieu of "ripping the guts" out of the TAFE sector. "They make it clear that Ted Baillieu is not just robbing TAFE's of their funding but robbing Victorian kids of their future," he said. "These documents reveal asset sales, sell offs, courses cuts and staff being made redundant. If Ted Baillieu wanted to show working families that he doesn't care about their kids, than there is no better way than to cut TAFE."