Training facility would provide more options

ELISIA SEEBERSound Telegraph

Options could be widened for students in Rockingham and Kwinana if a two-site training facility is approved.

The Peron Trade Training Centre would offer students the option of qualifications in allied health and chemical engineering.

Gilmore College principal Carolyn Cook spoke with confidence about the project, after taking charge of the bid when she joined the school two years ago.

“I applied for and got a Trade Training Centre for the Pilbara, when I was working up there, and that was once again two sites — which is being built as we speak,” she said.

“So when I came here, I said ‘why haven’t we got a TTC’ and I found out through the Parents Alliance of Curriculum and Teaching group they had applied but had not been successful.”

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Ms Cook said eight schools had their names behind the Peron TTC.

“It involves two sites — the Rockingham site will have allied health and the Gilmore site is for processed plants and chemical engineering,” she said.

“It is about options and it is about good choices and choices which will also allow them to stay local if they want to.”

Ms Cook said she was hopeful about the project progressing.

“It has got to the point where they have actually engaged architects, so they are pretty confident we are going to get it,” she said.

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