The next round of Waste Wise Schools grant funding is now open for applications. More than 120,000 students attended the 214 accredited Waste Wise Schools across Western Australia in 2019-20. The program delivers educational resources and provides support for schools to improve recycling, avoid waste and recover value from waste that would
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More than 190 students from nine Western Australian secondary schools attended this year's Muresk Institute's Drone versus Dog trials. The Drone versus Dog trials were established in 2017 at Muresk Institute, Western Australia's skills hub of modern agriculture, to expose secondary school students to the rapidly advancing agriculture industry and the
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A leading Western Australian secondary school principal has been appointed as the foundation principal of Inner City College. John Burke, currently principal of Belridge Secondary College, will take up the position in July 2018 and lead the establishment of the new Subiaco school for its opening in 2020. Mr Burke has a
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A beekeeping traineeship will be offered for the first time in Western Australia. A Certificate III in Beekeeping is now available through industry-based traineeships to help produce workers with the high level of skills required to maintain the world-class quality of Western Australia's product. Despite high local and international demand for WA
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A Western Australian vocational education and training (VET) alliance will be established to encourage input and involvement from the mining and resources industry in the development of Australia's first automation qualifications. The WA VET Collaboration, chaired by industry leader Jim Walker, will inform curriculum development, education opportunities and strategies to build
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South Metropolitan TAFE (SMT) will be the major training provider in Western Australia for new defence contracts as part of the national Australian Naval Shipbuilding College announced today by the Federal Government. SMT will be the lead vocational training organisation for trade and semi-professional training in WA for the naval shipbuilding
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St Thomas More College's, a new $47 million affordable student accommodation facility in Crawley, was officially blessed and opened today. The student housing, which has enabled the college to increase its student population capacity from 170 to 399, provides 245 studio and one-bedroom rooms. Construction work began in July 2014 and ended
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Construction of the new secondary school at Kitchener Park in Subiaco will start this week. Related: Vision of Inner City College helps bring grand plans to life PACT Construction has been awarded the forward and earthworks contract for the $68 million stage one of the build. Works will start today to realign the underground
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Local Noongar man, the Hon. Ken Wyatt MP, Federal Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health, turned the first sod for a $12.8 million Aboriginal accommodation project at St Catherine's College at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Funding for the innovative accommodation project came through the Employment and Educational Housing
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Premier Mark McGowan was quickly put to work by Belmont City College students during his visit to the school's Trade Training Centre to meet some young Western Australians preparing for their future careers. Related: 2018 Community Cabinet coming to Belmont and Victoria Park Students at the Trade Training Centre have been mastering their
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