The Australian | 21 June 2013
The Sunshine Coast TAFE has been awarded almost $47 million from the federal government’s Education Investment Fund to help build a new centre for health training.
The centre is expected to double the TAFE’s student capacity, with an extra 950 people undertaking studies there in its first three years.
Skills minister Craig Emerson said building the health and wellbeing training precinct would create 320 construction jobs in the region.
The announcement was the first grant to go to a TAFE since the government started drip-feeding announcements from the regional priorities round of the EIF last November, an approach that has been strongly criticised by EIF chairman Philip Clark.
Emerson announced the grant for the centre during question time yesterday in response to an question from Member for Fisher Peter Slipper.
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Hansard pp53-54
