Entries for the 2020 WA Training Awards are now open, and include a new Lifetime Achievement category. West Australian Education and Training Minister Sue Ellery encouraged the State’s top apprentices, trainees, employers and training organisations to apply.

More than $2.4 million in new grants for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector have been made available, in an effort by the Queensland Government to further upskill workers and respond to demand.

Western Australia is the first State to join the Working with Children Checks (WWCC) National Reference System, a move designed to protect children by enhancing the more than 130,000 Working with Children Check applications processed by the Department of Communities each year.

Over the coming months Wodonga TAFE will work with Premier Building and Construction to carry out renovations to combine their early childhood education and care (ECEC) service, Kids on Campus, with training spaces catering for students studying Certificate III and Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care.

Those wishing to work in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector have received a boost in their qualification pathway options, with a recent announcement by South West TAFE that they will be offering free ECEC courses for the first time at both their Hamilton and Portland sites.