Information Day, Sunday 5 August 2012, 10am-2pm

Download the CSH information sessions flyer (PDF 721Kb)

Discover first-hand what we at Community Services and Health can offer you at our Information Day. Find out about how to gain the skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience you need to achieve your career goals.

Teachers and students will be on-hand to chat to you about the course in which you are interested, what life on campus will be like, how, when, and where you will study, and how you apply.

Alternative Information Sessions

If you cannot attend the Information Day on 5 August 2012, then you can choose an alternative information session from the dates scheduled in September, October, November 2012 and January 2013. Check the flyer for further details.

For further information

Phone 02 6055 6506 | Email csh@wodongatafe.edu.au

Registrations open soon for ‘Shared responsibility ... What does it mean?’, the inaugural forum for disaster resilience.
It aims to facilitate an understanding of the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG’s) national strategy for disaster resilience.

When Thursday 28 June 2012, 9am-4pm

Where TAFEspace, 158 Lawrence Street, Wodonga

Download the Forum for disaster resilience flyer (PDF 321Kb)

A strong program featuring regional authorities and leaders from federal, state, and local governments will explore and stimulate interactive discussion with registrants to identify issues as this national strategy unfolds.

The forum is supported by the Monash Disaster Resilience Initiative and is committed to strengthen the skills and experience of emergency, health emergency, and community managers in Australia and the Albury Wodonga region. This initiative draws on a breadth of expertise from across the tertiary, health emergency, emergency management, and community sectors.

Who should attend?

• Members of our emergency management community, including state government, the business and private sectors, local government, emergency services organisations, university academics, and students are encouraged to attend. 
• You will benefit greatly from attending if you have a policy-making or an operational role. 

Forum notes will be provided to registrants. A light lunch, morning tea, and afternoon tea are provided to maximise your networking opportunities.

The program and registration details will be sent to you in an email. We look forward to seeing you at the forum to continue and progress this exciting initiative.

Register now

For further information

Jennifer Gordon

Manager, Office of the Chief Executive Wodonga Institute of TAFE

Email cpercy@wodongatafe.edu.au | Phone 02 6055 6328

Dudley McArdle

Emergency Management Consultant Monash University

Email dcmcardle@gmail.com | Phone 0412 921 031

Where can it take you?

As a graduate, you can work in long day care, occasional care, pre-school (kindergarten), neighbourhood houses, multi-functional Aboriginal children's services, and family day care.

When does the course start?

The course commences Monday 4 June 2012.

For further information, and to enrol

Phone 02 6055 6056 | Email csh@wodongatafe.edu.au

Read more about Certificate III in Children's Services at Wodonga TAFE

These sessions are available.

• Résumé checks. Bring along your résumé and receive some pointers about how to improve it.
• Career check-ups. Does your current career fit with your skills, values, and interests? Have a chat to one of our qualified career practitioners.
• Skills recognition checks. Find out how to have your current skills recognised.

These sessions are run by professional career development practitioners.

If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the following questions, then our ‘free checks’ are for you.

• Do you want to apply for jobs?
• Do you want to re enter the workforce?
• Are you a school leaver?
• Do you want to change your career?
• Do you have job-related skills but no formal qualifications?
• Do you have a career-related or job-seeking question?
• Are you a career development practitioner or studying career development? Come and have a chat about the benefits of a CDAA membership.

Download the career health check flyer (PDF 2Mb)

Wodonga TAFE in conjunction with the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) – Victoria proudly supports the Get the life you love campaign. This campaign includes National Career Development Week and is a key initiative of the Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA), in which CDAA is a member. The Get the life you love campaign encourages all Australians to actively engage in career development and develop the skills to manage their careers, learning, work and lives in order to get the life they love.

More information is available from the National Career Development Week website. http://www.ncdw.com.au

Opening hours

• Saturdays and Sundays 8am-2pm
• Mondays to Fridays 8am-6pm

The Retro Cafe is located in central Albury, at 556 Dean Street, Albury (opposite AMP Lane).

All-day menu | Pet-friendly courtyard | All ages welcome

Retro Cafe all-day menu (PDF 257Kb)

Retro Cafe breakfast menu (PDF 349Kb)

For further information, phone orders, or group bookings, please phone 02 6021 8313.

The VFITA is held annually and is an event that recognises the contribution of the various disciplines of the furnishing training sector in the state of Victoria. The VFITA encompasses employers, students and training organisations who have been involved in the training of, and contributed to the promotion of excellence within the related industries. These industries include floor covering, glass and glazing, picture framing, cabinet making, upholstery, furniture making, furniture finishing and design in the related areas.

This year’s event was held at the Regent Theatre’s Plaza Ballroom with an entire showcase of entries, and culminated in the Andrew Kossenas Award, the Furniture Training equivalent of winning a Brownlow Medal. This year Jesse Van Egmond (employed by Hutchinson Cabinets) was nominated for this prestigious event for his demi-lune hall table. This is a traditional piece of furniture that showcases high-end skills and encompasses a huge amount of custom veneer work. Jesse’s piece exhibits a high quality of this work.

Wodonga TAFE has been involved with the award ceremony to varying degrees over many years. Last year Wodonga TAFE’s apprentices did exceptionally well and students displayed a high degree of talent and skill, which is a culmination of three years’ hard work by the students, employers, and teachers at Wodonga TAFE. In 2011 the VFITA judging panel was so impressed with the nominated students work; Tom Banks (Flair Cabinets) and Brett Williams (Flair Cabinets previously Williams Furniture), that both were invited to showcase their work at the event in Melbourne where Tom received a judge’s commendation for his entry, a Tasmanian myrtle seven-piece dining setting, and Brett Williams was successful in securing the Victorian Furnishing Industry Certificate III in Furniture Making award, an extremely difficult task with fierce competition, for the queen size red gum bed he designed and created. Brett’s piece went on to win the Andrew Kossenas Apprentice of the Year Award.

 (Photography courtesy of Saskia Heydon)

Victorian Furnishing Industry Certificate III in Furniture Making Award, (L to R) Tony Matthews (Matthews Timber, Sponsor), Jesse VanEgmond (Recipient), Simon Hampton (Teacher, Wodonga TAFE)

Victorian Furnishing Industry Andrew Kossenas Apprentice of the Year, (L to R) David Benson (Dean, Faculty of Design, Arts and Science of Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Sponsor), Jesse VanEgmond (Recipient), Paul Lempriere (Teacher, Wodonga TAFE), Simon Hampton (Teacher, Wodonga TAFE).

Victorian Furnishing Industry People’s Choice Award (New award introduced this year and voted on by the people in attendance on the evening), (L to R) Ian Harrison (CEO of the Australian Made Campaign, Sponsor), Jesse VanEgmond (Recipient).

We can assess your skills on your own farm and then reward you appropriately.

Put yourself in the picture with NECMA and Wodonga TAFE.

You may be eligible to have your farming skills recognised as credits towards a TAFE qualification (PDF 210Kb)

The difference is that a good operator can do a complex task in one day when a great operator can achieve this in ten minutes.

Why? Great operators don't settle for OK - they seek out knowledge!

Don't be mediocre, find out what you don't know. Get expert tips from Wodonga TAFE's Office Wizard, Marg Pont.

Try these tips!

Moving rows and numbered lists - Alt Shift is your friend 

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For more information, and to enrol

Three good reasons to be trained by Wodonga TAFE's Marg Pont (PDF 816Kb)

Find your short course here!

Phone 02 6055 6000 | Email bcsi@wodongatafe.edu.au

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Location: on the lawn area in front of The Valleys Restaurant.

DJ from 10am-2pm

Our students from Certificate IV in Sound Production waxing it with all your favourites!!

Activities from 11am-1pm

• Sketch artist workshop
• Drumbeat  (11.30am and 12.30pm workshops)
• Flag making display
• Jewellery making workshop
• Craft stall
• Outdoor Recreation display
• Information show bags
• Clinic 35 – sexual health
• Mental health/drug information
• BBQ - free for students (gold coin donation for staff)
• Pancakes
• Fairy floss
• Apple bobbing.

The next Certificate II in Retail course commences on 3 May, and runs until 6 September 2012, with classes every Thursday from 9am until 4pm.

Read more about Certificate II in Retail

Contact us for more information, and to enrol

Business, Communications and Service Industries

Phone 02 6055 6000 | Email bcsi@wodongatafe.edu.au