The Western Australian Government has hailed an ‘exciting new era in training’ after launching the Goldfields Institute of Technology Esperance Region campus.

 

Formally known as the Vocational Training Education Centre, the new institute has become an independent State Training Provider and a statutory authority.

 

State Minister for Training and Workforce Development Minister Murray Cowper said the formation of the new institute was another step in the State Government’s strategy to transform Western Australia’s training sector.

 

“The institute will continue to raise the status of training in the region and provide improved opportunities for the community to access training and employment in occupations so desperately needed by local industry such as transport, farming and tourism,” Mr Cowper said.

 

The institute will take direction from a Government Council led by chairman David Nicholson and made up of key figures in the region.