South West Institute of TAFE is the

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 cours ...

(TAFE) Institute located in the south west of the Australian state of

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. South West TAFE’s campuses are located in

Warrnambool Warrnambool ( Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 35,743. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (A ...

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and Colac, with training facilities also located at Glenormiston and Sherwood Park (Deakin Warrnambool).

History

Technical education in Warrnambool had its roots in a Mechanics Institute, established in 1853. A technical school operated from the Mechanics Institute until larger premises were sought from 1908. Warrnambool Technical School operated on the current campus from 1913, operating within the state education system. It became known as the Warrnambool Technical College in 1958, The

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component of the College became the

Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education (WIAE) was a college of advanced education in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. It was created in July 1969 after the tertiary section of Warrnambool Technical College (now South West TAFE) was affili ...

(WIAE), and when the TAFE section separated from the WIAE in 1984, there was another name change to Warrnambool College of Technical and Further Education (TAFE). South West Institute of TAFE came into existence as a multi-campus institution on 9 January 1987, when the TAFE operations of the Hamilton and Portland Technical Schools were combined with the Warrnambool College of TAFE. Known firstly as the South West College of TAFE, the college was renamed on 1 August 1995 to become the South West Institute of TAFE. From 2006 until 2013, the Institute managed Glenormiston College and assumed further regional responsibilities for training in agriculture, and farm and horse management. The Glenormiston campus was shut down due to government education funding cuts in 2013.

Buildings

Centre for Creative Arts South West TAFE

The Warrnambool campus includes the heritage building on Kepler Street, built as the Orderly Room for the Warrnambool Detachment, Western Corps Royal Victorian Volunteer Artillery. It opened on 31 December 1868. The Warrnambool Technical College took over the building on 10 February 1960. It was used as the College Library, and by the art department from 2013.

References

External links

South West TAFE Website
{{TAFEVictoria Education in Warrnambool