Riverina Institute of TAFE

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute is a vocational education and training provider with a network of 19 campuses across 154,000 square kilometres of the Riverina-Murray region in southern New South Wales, Australia. The region is framed by the Victorian border in the south, the Snowy Mountains in the east and the South Australian border in the west. It encompasses the major regional centres of Albury, Wagga Wagga and Griffith and a large number of medium-sized towns including Leeton, Narrandera, Deniliquin, Finley, West Wyalong, Temora, Tumut, Cootamundra and Young, with Coomealla Campus near Wentworth in the far west.

As the largest provider of vocational education and training in the Riverina-Murray region, the Institute's focus is to build the skills, qualifications and employability of people within our footprint, offering programs from certificate level through to advanced diplomas. Across the selection of our courses, the areas of study include social inclusion and vocational access, business and information technology, community and health services, primary industries and natural resources and 27 specialist trades, 559 programs in total.

Courses are offered online, by distance, full-time, part-time or by flexible arrangement, in the classroom and in the workplace to accommodate the needs of individuals and organisations.

Riverina Institute was named Large Training Provider of the Year at the 2012 NSW Training Awards.

VISION: to inspire regional prosperity and in partnership grow nationally

PURPOSE: Build the skills, qualifications and employability of people in regional Australia

Specialty centres

Riverina Institute has established specialty centres across the region:

Facts at a glance

1,567 staff (of which 1,119 are teachers)
32,361 students
5,621,379 annual student hours
2,180 apprentices across 27 trades
559 courses
14% of students studied at Certificate IV or above
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander enrolments make up 8.25% of total enrolments
17% of students gain their qualifications in the workplace
8% of students come from beyond NSW
41.6% of our funding is contracted and/or won competitively (2010/11)
Graduate satisfaction of 87.7%
A 31% completion to enrolment ratio for Certificate III and above and a unit completion rate of 82% (2010)
88.3% of graduates are employed or in further study

19 campuses in the following locations

Riverina Institute of TAFE Wagga Wagga Campus

Plumbing Technology Facility located at the Wagga Wagga Campus

External links

Riverina Institute website

TAFE NSW Institutes (Technical and Further Education)

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