Tafe review recommends redistribution

A review of Western Australia’s vocational education and training system, undertaken earlier this year by KPMG has called for a redistribution of the Tafe sector’s infrastructure assets and an injection of further capital to improve services.

The report recommended a funding commitment of $28 million to replace and upgrade training equipment, as well as infrastructure improvements in the building and construction, metals and engineering areas.

It also outlined a number of changes to the Tafe sector, with greater campus specialisation.

Under the recommendations, Challenger Tafe’s Rockingham campus would become a building and construction apprenticeship training centre for the southern metropolitan corridor, while West Coast Tafe would provide a similar service in the north, as well as metals and electrical apprenticeship training. 

Swan Tafe’s Midland campus would specialise in metals and high-end post trade training in machining.

Kimberley Tafe’s campuses in Broome and Kununurra would receive further funding for trade workshops, with the former to specialise in building and construction, and the latter to have metals and engineering training.