Four new priority TAFE courses and six new short courses have been announced as free of charge from 2023.
Victoria’s most in-demand industries, emergency healthcare, mental health, family violence and agriculture, can be studied in 2023 at no cost.
The Diploma of Emergency Health Care course, currently delivered at Victoria University and Swinburne University, qualifies students to work in non-emergency patient transport as Ambulance Transport Attendants, Patient Transport Officers and Ambulance Community Officers – as well as providing a pathway into university paramedicine courses.
Other new courses to be added to the Free TAFE list for 2023 include Certificate III in Production Horticulture, Graduate Certificate in Client Assessment and Case Management, which upskills health and community services workers in the family violence field, and the Diploma of Interpreting (Auslan).
Six short courses will also be made available next year under Free TAFE, including courses in mental health, agricultural chemical handling and electric and hybrid automotive maintenance.
For the full list of more than 70 Free TAFE courses, visit freetafe.vic.gov.au.
