Technical Education Centre

Technical Education Centres (TEC) are purpose built centres for the delivery of practical secondary school and vocational education programs on a TAFE campus in the state of Victoria, Australia. They aim to attract young people 16-19 years of age to provide trade skills training while they complete a secondary school certificate. Each TEC is administered by the TAFE Institute it is a part of.[1]

The Centres offer courses in the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) at Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels with trade streams and various pre-apprenticeship and pre-vocational courses in trade skills such as bricklaying, cabinet making, carpentry, painting, plumbing and shop fitting.[1]

TECs are located at Berwick and Heidelberg in suburban Melbourne, and Ballarat and Wangaratta in regional Victoria.

The Vocational College at Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, while not classified as a TEC, offers a similar range of opportunities.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Skills Victoria, Technical Education Centres, Skills Victoria website. Accessed 27 September 2011.
  2. Trade school to open, The (Ballarat) Courier, 7 March 2006. Accessed 27 September 2011
  3. Vincent Crisp Architects, Berwick Technical Education Centre, Accessed 27 September 2011
  4. Peter Strachan, Building a future at Berwick's Chisholm Institute, Berwick Leader, 11 May 2011. Accessed 27 September 2011
  5. Chee Chee Leung, Enrolment high at new tech college, The Age, 6 September 2006. Accessed 27 September 2011
  6. Karen Poh, $8m Heidelberg West centre to teach trade skills, Heidelberg Leader, 27 May 2010. Accessed 27 September 2011
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, June 02, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.