$10 Million for Berwick Technical College

The dream of nailing a career straight out of school is closer to reality for technically-minded Berwick students following the opening of the state's first Technical Education College. Skills and Workforce Participation Minister Jacinta Allan today opened the $10.5 million state-of-the-art facility at Berwick's Chisholm TAFE and said young people aged between 15 and 19 would be job-ready by the time they graduated. "As many as 300 young people at a time will receive the highest standard of skills training and unprecedented access to Chisholm TAFE's industry links," Ms Allan said. "The Brumby Labor Government is building three more TEC facilities including Ballarat, Heidelberg and Wangaratta with a total TEC investment - including Berwick - of $32 million. "We are also injecting $316 million into skills reform to bring Victorian tertiary education well into the 21st century by opening up 172,000 new government-subsidised TAFE and training places.