victorian training awards

Opening with a fashion parade by Box Hill TAFE design students, the Victorian Traing Awards dinnner was held at the Crown Palladium last Tuesday.

The ACPET sponsored Victorian Training Initiative of the Year Award was presented to the Centre of Excellence for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing by ACPET National Chair, Kay Ganley.  Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE’s Centre of Excellence for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing is unique in delivering the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment with Auslan – Australian Sign Language – as the primary language in the classroom. The training targets deaf learners using distinctive learning strategies, while maintaining the qualification’s standards.

Kay Ganley (centre) with the winner and finalists of the ACPET sponsored Victorian Training Initiative of the Year Award

ACPET Victoria member, Spectrum Education and Training, was awarded the Victorian Small Training Provider of the Year Award.  Spectrum Education and Training provides a wide range of services to newly arrived and established migrant communities in Melbourne’s north-west. Working in an area of high unemployment, SET has actively fostered local service partnerships and created innovative skills development programs. These include a social enterprise program providing multicultural home care for retrenched migrants undertaking traineeships.

(l-r) Kay Ganley with the winning team from Spectrum Education and Training - Maria Langwell and Rosemary Kelada

ACPET congratulates all winners and finalists on their tremendous achivements.

The 2010 Award Winners are:

• Inner Melbourne VET Cluster Inc. – Winner of the McDonald’s Australia Victorian VET in Schools Excellence Award
• Centre of Excellence for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Winner of the ACFE Victorian VET Client Service/Support Excellence Award
• Centre of Excellence for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Winner of the ACPET Victorian Training Initiative of the Year Award
• Crown Melbourne Limited – Winner of the WPC Group Victorian Employer of the Year Award
• Gordon Institute of TAFE – Winner of the TAFE Development Centre Victorian Large Training Provider of the Year Award
• Spectrum Education and Training – Winner of the Group Training Association of Victoria Victorian Small Training Provider of the Year Award
• The Social Studio – Winner of the DIIRD Victorian Small Business of the Year Award
• Ken Radley – Winner of the Victorian TAFE Association Victorian Teacher/Trainer of the Year Award
• Rory Smeaton – Winner of the Koori Business Network and the Koori Justice Unit Victorian Koorie Student of the Year Award
• Imran Khan – Winner of the Crown Melbourne Limited Victorian Trainee of the Year Award
• Michael Hogan – Winner of the Victorian Skills Commission Victorian Vocational Student of the Year Award
• Rhylee Deas – Winner of the VECCI Victorian School-Based Apprentice of the Year Award
• Callan Ridge – Winner of the Skilled Group Victorian Apprentice of the Year Award
• Swinburne University Of Technology (TAFE Division) – Winner of the DIIRD Victorian Skills For Sustainability Award