North Metropolitan TAFE is a state government-funded educational facility delivering
Technical and Further Education
Technical and further education or simply TAFE (), is the common name in English-speaking countries in Oceania for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational co ...
(TAFE). It services the northern suburbs of
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
across ten campuses.
It was formed on 11 April 2016, when the State Government announced after the ''Independent Review of the Vocational Education and Training Sector in Western Australia'', that the 11 State Training Providers would be streamlined and form five new TAFE colleges in Western Australia. This resulted in the merging of
Central Institute and
West Coast Institute to form North Metropolitan TAFE.
At the beginning of 2017, two campuses (Balga and Midland) that were formerly part of
Polytechnic West
Polytechnic West (formerly Swan TAFE) was a State Training Provider established under section 35 of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1996 (WA) based in Perth, Western Australia. Polytechnic West is one of the largest training providers ...
also joined North Metropolitan TAFE.
North Metropolitan TAFE has about 1250 (casual, part-time, full-time) staff that collaborate with local industry to ensure that courses are meeting the demands of students wanting to enter the workforce with up-to-date, industry-specific, practical skills. As of 2021, there were 29,979 students enrolled in approximately 350
Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses covering a number of industry areas.
Courses
North Metropolitan TAFE offers courses that are nationally recognised
VET courses under the
Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF). Students can study qualifications at a variety of levels, including:
* Course
* Certificate I
* Certificate II
* Certificate III
* Certificate IV
* Diploma
* Advanced Diploma
Qualifications can be studied full-time or part-time, and are delivered on campus (in classrooms or laboratories) or online (self-paced study) or as a combination (online and on campus). Components of qualifications can also be studied as Short Courses or Skill Sets over a few weeks. Some courses allow students to enrol as an apprentice or trainee, resulting in part of the training for the course being completed “on the job”.
North Metropolitan TAFE courses can, in some instances, prepare students for university studies. North Metropolitan TAFE have arrangements in place with local Western Australian universities and national higher education providers so that credits/advanced standing can be applied to units completed at TAFE.
The industry areas that North Metropolitan TAFE has courses covering include:
* Automotive (Automotive Air Conditioning, Automotive Electrical, Automotive Manufacturing, Trimming, Vehicle Servicing)
* Building and Construction (Bricklaying, Carpentry and Joinery, Electrotechnology, Fabrication, Painting and Signcraft, Plumbing, Residential Building Drafting, Solid Plastering Tiling)
* Business and Finance (Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Administration, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Legal Services, Marketing, Project Management, Response and Operational Services, Retail)
* Creative Industries (Animation, Digital Art, Digital Cinema, Fashion and Textile Design, Game Art, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Jewellery, Film and Television, Broadcast Radio, Music, Photography, Product Design, Visual Arts)
* Education and Community Services (Counselling, Early Childhood Education and Care, Education Support, Languages, Mental Health, School Based Education Support, Training and Assessment, Youth Work)
* Engineering (Civil Construction, Fluid Power, Instrumentation, Mechanical Trade, Metal Fabrication)
* Languages and Foundation Studies (Auslan, English, Foreign Languages, General Education, Interpreting)
* Health and Beauty (Aged Care, Allied Health, Anaesthetic Technology, Beauty Therapy, Dental, Disability Services, Fitness, Hairdressing, Massage Therapy, Nursing, Pathology, Sport)
* Hospitality (Baking and Patisserie, Commercial Cookery, Events, Tourism, Travel)
* Information technology (Cyber Security, Data and Voice Communications, Library, Networking and Security, Programming, Robotics, Web Development)
* Logistics (Supply Chain Operations)
* Mining (Exploration, Resource Processing, Surface Operations, Surveying)
* Science and Environment (Conservation, Ecosystem Management, Environmental Science, Horticulture, Laboratory Operations)
Campuses
In the suburb of
Perth
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, North Metropolitan TAFE has its main campus within the area bound by Newcastle Street, William Street, Francis Street and Beaufort Street, just to the north of the
State Library of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Culture and t ...
and
Perth Cultural Centre
The Perth Cultural Centre is an area of central Perth, Western Australia, near the James Street Mall.
It is home to a number of cultural institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, State Library o ...
.
In
East Perth
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Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...
, North Metropolitan TAFE’s campus comprises the Mining Training Centre and the newly renovated Green Skills Training Centre, which is completely self-sufficient in energy and water, earning it a 6 star Green Rating for design by the
Green Building Council of Australia
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.
At the
Leederville campus of North Metropolitan TAFE Human Services type courses are catered for. This campus also has a professional recording studio and live performance venue with full staging, lighting and sound production.
Similarly, the
Mount Lawley
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campus of North Metropolitan TAFE has courses with a focus on health services.
In conjunction with the
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...
, North Metropolitan TAFE has a campus for its Dental courses in
Nedlands, at th
Oral Health Centre of Western Australia
The North Metropolitan TAFE campuses in
Balga
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and
Midland were formerly part of
South Metropolitan TAFE
South Metropolitan TAFE (formerly known as Challenger Institute of Technology or Challenger TAFE) is a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institution with campuses in Armadale, Bentley, Carlisle, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Mandurah, M ...
(in 2016) and prior to that they were part of
Polytechnic West
Polytechnic West (formerly Swan TAFE) was a State Training Provider established under section 35 of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1996 (WA) based in Perth, Western Australia. Polytechnic West is one of the largest training providers ...
, which was formerly known as Swan TAFE.
["Celebrating a century of training at Midland TAFE. A brief history of the Midland campus of Swan TAFE." '']InterSector
''InterSector'' is a Western Australian
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to ...
'' April 2004, p.4-5/ref> The Balga campus was originally known as the Balga Technical School and was established in the early 1970s.
To the north of the Perth metropolitan area
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It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in th ...
, in the suburb of Joondalup
Joondalup () is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of Perth's central business district. It contains the central business district of the regional City of Joondalup and acts as the primary urban centre of Perth's outer ...
, North Metropolitan TAFE has two campuses on Kendrew Crescent and on McLarty Avenue. The Kendrew Crescent campus was the main campus of the former West Coast Institute, built in 1992. The McLarty Avenue campus, also referred to as the Health and Wellness Training Campus, has a simulation hospital to assist with nursing and other health courses, and is situated close to the Joondalup Health Campus
Joondalup Health Campus is the largest health care facility in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The 722-bed hospital has featured combined public and private services since 1996. In March 2013, the new Joondalup Private Hospital ...
.
Further north in Clarkson, North Metropolitan TAFE has its Trades Training Centre to cater for various building and construction courses. This campus was formerly known as Trades North, which was part of West Coast Institute.
References
External links
North Metropolitan TAFE website
Department of Training and Workforce Development
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TAFE WA
Educational institutions established in 1900
1900 establishments in Australia