Media Centre - TAFE NSW

Career morphing from graphic design, to childcare and then building design has seen Beatriz Wright land her dream job with Ferntree Homes. Knowing she would need to retrain, Ms Wright decided to give drafting a go and enrolled in an online Diploma of Building Design with TAFE Digital.

Penrith man Corey Roberts has completed a Certificate IV in Accounting with TAFE Digital, giving him the confidence to undertake Australian Taxation Office (ATO) tasks with little or no supervision.

Levi Jackson, a TAFE NSW graduate, is jubilant that the new customer service and logistics systems implemented at Honey Australia are improving sales and streamlining production cycles, with manufacturing levels increasing from 350 tonnes to 400 tonnes in the last 12 months, over and above an exponential 150 tonnes increase over the last two years. Mr Jackson chose to study a Certificate IV in Business with TAFE Digital after in-depth research.

Darren Friend is a man on a mission. An excellent mission to give a helping hand of hope to homeless youth in Sydney Inner West. Mr Friend studied a Certificate IV in Youth Work with TAFE Digital to add to his more than 20 years’ martial arts experience, with the burning desire to put a tiny dent into helping the staggering 43,552 homeless youth across Australia.

Rebecca Francis made the massive decision to change careers to building design when considering building a house, after 15 years in administrative roles in the finance sector. She is now following her architectural dream with Pace Architects, a boutique firm specialising in innovative industrial and healthcare design projects.

TAFE Digital laboratory tours and exciting course demonstrations are just some of the highlights of TAFE NSW Armidale’s InfoFest activities this week.

TAFE Digital student, Verity Snaith, has been awarded the Vocational Student of the Year Award at the prestigious Southern and South Western Sydney Regional Training Awards Presentation Event at Prestons last night. Since completing a Diploma of Landscape Design with TAFE Digital, she now has the skills to transform local school grounds in Kenya into a thriving permaculture food forest to provide lunches to 200 children a day.

A double diploma graduate has credited TAFE NSW with giving her the “competitive edge” in a variety of industry sectors, ranging from architecture to civil engineering and law. Marinsa Vlok, who completed a double Diploma of Leadership and Management, and Marketing and Communication with TAFE Digital is now working as a business development and marketing consultant at Dentons Law Firm in Sydney.

St Ives resident, Emily Southey, made the courageous decision to literally put in the hard yards while studying an Advanced Diploma in Agribusiness Management online with TAFE NSW. Add to this working full-time to establish a successful stable hand business called Southey and Co and mentoring other students - all by the young age of 20. Ms Southey is now studying a Bachelor of Community Services with TAFE Digital.