Industry/Faculty News

A new partnership between the Orange's Red Cross charity shop and TAFE NSW Western Institute sees TAFE students from the Certificate II in Retail Operations course complete 100 hours of voluntary work in the store.

Jill Morris who graduated from Dubbo TAFE with a Diploma of Community Welfare Work last year has been named the Vocational Student of the Year at the 2008 Australian Training Awards

Unemployed people in the region will benefit from new training funded by the Australian Government and delivered by TAFE NSW Western Institute as part of a new national initiative, the Productivity Places Program.

The NSW Labor MLC for Orange, Amanda Fazio, officially opened new multi-million dollar facilities at TAFE NSW - Western Institute's Orange Campus.

The NSW Premier presented TAFE NSW - Western Institute with a Premier's Public Sector Award which recognises how the Institute uses satellite technology to deliver training to remote communities and homesteads in Western NSW.

The 2008 Australian Agricultural Training Providers' Network Conference was held at Dubbo TAFE College on October 9 and 10

Fourteen Aboriginal students in a brand new course are among the first TAFE students across NSW to graduate with this qualification.