Why Trade Training Centres?
Round Four of the Trade Training Centres in Schools Program has been officially announced as open by the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, the Hon Peter Garrett, AM MP (the Minister) with around $150 million for trade training facilities to be distributed across education sectors.
A key change for Round Four is the move from a competitive application process to a more strategic approach for rolling out future Trade Training Centres. This approach will see Education Authorities working closely with schools to develop Individual Project Proposals that will feed into an overarching Sectoral Plan to be submitted to DEEWR.
Program Guidelines
The Program Guidelines provide further information on Round Four:
Round Three
Successful schools for Round Three were announced by the Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, on 4 November 2010.
Round Two
In Round Two over $384 million was announced.
The Prime Minister brought forward up to $110 million in Round Two of the Trade Training Centres Program, increasing available funding from $277 million to up to $387 million.
Round One
In Round One over $425 million was announced.
There were two phases of funding:
In Phase One over $90 million was announced and in Phase Two over $335 million was announced.
From Round Two there will be a single funding round each year.