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Photo of Professor Adam Shoemaker and Wayne Butson at the 2022 Victorian Training Awards
15 September 2022
VU Polytechnic, the University’s TAFE division, was honoured as the State’s Inclusive Training Provider of the Year in the 2022 Victorian Training Awards.
09 September 2022
As part of our Women in Trades series, we sat down with Kyriaky, Teacher in Cabinet Making at VU Polytechnic, to hear their thoughts on being a non-binary, queer teacher in a male-dominated field.
07 September 2022
As part of our Women in Trades series, we sat down with Maja, Senior Educator in Advanced Building at VU Polytechnic, to hear her thoughts on teaching such a precise trade.
01 September 2022
7 ways TAFE can launch your career in health, nursing & care
Microsoft staff visited our Footscray Nicholson Campus to watch a series of presentations on new and emerging computer technology delivered by students.
29 August 2022
Microsoft staff visited our Footscray Nicholson Campus to watch a series of presentations on new and emerging computer technology delivered by our Certificate III in Information Technology ICT30120 students.
19 August 2022
Bocuse d’Or Australia welcomes leading hospitality vocational education provider Victoria University (VU) Polytechnic as a Silver Sponsor, assisting Team Australia to compete in the world’s most elite culinary contest.
09 August 2022
VU and Orygen, Australia’s centre of excellence in youth mental health, have announced a partnership aimed at boosting youth mental health workforce capacity, and improving mental health outcomes in Melbourne.
08 August 2022
VU Polytechnic is the proud gold sponsor of the Wyndham Learning Festival on 1–7 September 2022. Find out about our free workshops.
Chloe Quilty, teacher at VU Polytechnic
28 July 2022
As part of our Women in Trades series, we sat down with Chloe, an innovative signs and graphics teacher at VU Polytechnic, to hear her thoughts on teaching the next generation this creative trade.
22 July 2022
The Australian Computer Society held a successful student summit event to workshop solutions to a particular problem in the cyber security domain, learn key elements of the innovative process and work collaboratively to reach solutions.