Advance TAFE

Advance TAFE is the vocational and tertiary education hub of south-eastern Victoria, with two main campuses, plus specialist centres and outreach centres located across the Wellington Shire and East Gippsland Shire regions. Our main campuses at Bairnsdale and Sale have a wide range of higher education and vocational facilities, including commercial... kitchens, trades centres and university programs, which combine on-campus classes with the latest in online and video-conferencing technology. Our nationally renowned specialist education centres offer the kinds of facilities that other education providers dream about. Forestec is our specialist environmental, forestry and furniture design centre and is located in the incredible Gippsland bush, in one of the most diverse temperate forest ecosystems in the world. Our Seamec Maritime Education centre on the waterfront at Lakes Entrance boasts a deep-water berth, aquaculture facilities and well-equipped laboratories, making it a hub for marine and maritime industry training that draws participants from all over Australia. Farmtec Education Centre is a working farm on the outskirts of Sale offering horticulture, agriculture and equine studies, including popular courses in organics. Farmtec also allows students to learn how to operate the latest automated irrigation systems. From the first beginnings of vocational and adult education more than 100 years ago at the Bairnsdale School of Mines and the Sale and Bairnsdale Technical Schools, through to the creation of the East Gippsland Institute of TAFE in 1986, and finally Advance TAFE in 2011, our mission has remained the same. We believe that every individual and enterprise in the community has a right to educational opportunity at a time and in a place and of a form appropriate to their expectations, needs and capabilities. To date, we are the only Victorian TAFE Institute to be recognised as an outstanding RTO, awarded Gold status for training excellence under the Australian Quality Framework Excellence Criteria. We ...Read More