Real skills, Real jobs
Welcome to TAFE Tasmania, both the Institute of TAFE Tasmania and
the Drysdale Institute.
Last year more than 29,000 people passed through the doors of a
TAFE campus somewhere around Tasmania accessing one of the 450 accredited
training courses on offer. More than half our students are in the
20-39 age group, with the majority of them enrolled on a part-time
basis.
TAFE Tasmania is already playing its part in the development of
lifelong learning for Tasmanians. As part of the national TAFE network,
delivering vocational education and training to an internationally
recognised standard, TAFE Tasmania is the largest registered training
organisation in the State. Did you know that TAFE Tasmania is the
only training provider in Australia to be awarded ANTA’s National
Training Provider of the Year twice – in 2000 and 2002?
TAFE Tasmania has increased he amount of training delivered over
the last few years, through efficient
delivery methods. In 2001, TAFE delivered over 4.5 million hours
of government funded training
activity increasing to 4.64 million
hours in 2002, and 4.9 million hours of government funded training
activity in 2003.
Products and services are delivered through 18 delivery programs
operating from over 20 training sites statewide. Flexible delivery
is a feature of TAFE Tasmania’s business operations, with
training delivered in the home, at the workplace, at Online Access
Centres via computer managed learning, or at TAFE campuses. Within
this changing environment, the integration of learning and work
is a major feature of the contemporary Tasmanian workplace. The
enhanced focus on generic skills and learning at work has increasingly
influenced (and will continue to do so) the type and range of partnerships
TAFE Tasmania has developed with local enterprise and community
clients.
TAFE Tasmania has recorded the highest number of enrolments undertaken
as part of a Training Package and the highest number of annual hours
of training delivered as part of a Training Package across the country – in
fact TAFE Tasmania exceeds the Australian average (Enrolments: Tas
82.5% compared with 56.8% Aust/Training: Tas 80.7% compared with
51.1% Aust). 23% of graduates have some component of their training
delivered in the workplace compared with just 3% of graduates five
years ago (and greater than the current national average of 14%).
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