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Andrea Day, Senior Educator in Beauty at VU Polytechnic, is passionate about teaching the next generation of beauty therapists. She shares her career journey so far – and how she’s continuing to take her beauty knowledge to new heights.

VU Polytechnic student Benjamin Bwenge shares how studying English is helping him achieve his goals for his new life in Australia.

We sat down with Jo, Teacher at VU Polytechnic, to hear her experience in the health and wellness industry. Jo teaches the Certificate III in Fitness SIS30315 and Certificate IV in Fitness SIS40215.

Looking for a career where she could help people in a meaningful way, Bianca Yankov set out on a journey in community services. She shares her experience at VU Polytechnic and how she hopes to make a difference.

Two cookery students, Chris Vo and Sam Soon, have won second place in the AUS-TAFE Culinary Trophy State Final cookery competition held at Bendigo TAFE.

VU Polytechnic hosted 71 students to a full day of hands-on trades activities focused on carpentry, engineering, bricklaying, cabinet making and signwriting. The activities were set up in a round-robin style at Sunshine Campus to give students a taste of what each trade is like and access to industry-standard tools.  

Do you love being creative, working with your hands and making connections with people? We talked to Andrea Day, Senior Educator, Hair Beauty and Make-up at the new VU City Tower, about some of the best reasons to get started on a fun and rewarding career journey now. 

A momentary distraction resulted in a horrendous motorcycle accident that changed the life of Alex Eleftheriou. Now studying a Diploma of Community Services CHC52015, he has goals to pursue writing, public speaking, youth work and a PhD.

For Hannah Wigg, studying a plumbing pre-apprenticeship at VU Polytechnic has been just the fresh start she was looking for. She shares why now is a great time to be a woman in trades.

VU Polytechnic’s Certificate IV in Mental Health CHC43315 students had the opportunity to engage with industry partner, MIND Australia’s HR team about their organisational values, types of roles and programs on offer, their recruitment processes and expectations of applicants.