Discover trade skills
THE South Gippsland Trade Skills Alliance will be openingits doors to provide an opportunity for students, parents, employers and the local community to explore the many opportunities available at thesestate of the art training facilities.
If you’re looking to become an electrician, motor mechanic, carpenter, plumber or work within the dairy, horticulture or agriculture industry, then come along.
If you’re an employer and looking to take on an apprentice or have hired an apprentice and are looking for a top quality training centre, then the South Gippsland Trade Skills Open Day is for you.
Come and see and experience the centre’s amazing resources:
- multi-level Plumbing Training Centre;
- Interactive Hybrid Car Centre;
- Automotive Workshop;
- Carpentry and Electrical Workshop;
- Interactive Solar House; and
- Common Rail Diesel Training Centre.
Apprenticeships Group Australia, Community College Gippsland, GOTafe, The National Centre for Diary Education and Federation Training will all be there hosting information sessions, workshops and facility tours, displays, demonstrations and trade activities.
Star FM will be broadcasting live onsite and will keep visitors entertained with big wheel giveaways.
The open day on Monday, August 15 will be held from 10am to 5pm at two big locations: Federation Training, Nerrena Road, Leongatha; and AGA, 1 Kurrle Street, Korumburra.
Local employers, parents, community, come and have a look and a barbecue on the centre.
For further information contact John Cargill, South Gippsland Trade Skills Alliance, on 0427 468 540.
The Alliance is a partnership between four local Registered Training Organisations and all secondary colleges in southern Gippsland.
The partnership is a ground breaking example of local schools and training organisations combining cooperatively to provide a diverse range of programs in skill shortage areas for students to improve job prospects and to meet the needs of industry in South Gippsland and Bass Coast.
The vocational training in secondary schools program offers students an opportunity to gain credit towards a future apprenticeship while still in school.
The programs are available to secondary students from Year 10 and above who will be able to undertake nationally accredited programs as part of their secondary education. The programs can be undertaken as part of VCE or VCAL.
For example, one day per week over two years as part of this program can give credit for the first year of an apprenticeship. Students who take up this option have a head start and significant advantage in getting an apprenticeship and gaining employment.
Heavy automotive and agricultural equipment training will be available in Leongatha for the first time anywhere in Gippsland.
The carpentry workshop at AGA Korumburra has been upgraded and for the first time electrical and plumbing training, including apprenticeships, is available in South Gippsland.
New facilities for agriculture and horticulture, including hydroponics, are also be available.
Extensive research and consultation into future economic development in South Gippsland identified the programs on offer as being those with the best employment prospects into the future.
Students, parents, community members and industry welcome.
Practical learning: from left, South Gippsland Secondary College students Lachy Petersen, Max Meyer and Cael Green are undertaking a Certificate Two in Automotive Studies at Federation Training, Leongatha, part of the South Gippsland Trade Skills Alliance.
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