TAFE NSW Moss Vale has helped a Southern Highlands woman realise her dream of working in horticulture – and follow in the footsteps of her mum.

A young Southern Highlands tradie has encouraged other young locals to embrace the “boundless opportunities” of pursuing a trade through TAFE NSW after winning a prestigious award.

A group of TAFE NSW Moss Vale students has had a priceless hands-on experience – and all been offered jobs – during a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show this month.

TAFE NSW is helping a new face of farming take shape in the Highlands, with females comprising a record 70 per cent of current agriculture students at TAFE NSW Moss Vale.

A growing population and increased demand for hairdressers and barbers in the Southern Highlands has prompted TAFE NSW Moss Vale to offer a hairdressing and barbering trade course for the first time ever.

TAFE NSW has helped a Moss Vale great-grandmother again prove the adage “you’re never too old to learn” – or to start your own business.

Students from TAFE NSW Moss Vale have been given one-on-one exposure to some of the nation’s biggest names in landscape construction and horticulture as part of a special trip to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show last month.

A landmark new partnership between TAFE NSW and a major Southern Highlands thoroughbred breeding operation will give high school students a galloping start into one of the region’s fastest growing industries.

One of the region’s leading trucking figures has welcomed a new TAFE NSW course aimed at bolstering apprentice mechanic numbers, saying a skills shortage was “suffocating” the industry.