Chisholm Institute is a government-owned

Technical and Further Education Technical and further education or simply TAFE () is the common name in Australia for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses. Colloquially also known ...

(TAFE) Institute located in south-east

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. It provides

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in several areas including the arts, hospitality,

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, trades and

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. Chisholm offers over 250 certificate, diploma, advanced diploma, bachelor and graduate certificate courses. The Institute takes its name from Caroline Chisholm. Its name was also inspired by the

Chisholm Institute of Technology Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield East, Victoria, Caulfield East, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The campus comprises 13,400 stu ...

, a tertiary institution that operated in southeast Melbourne from 1982 to 1990 before becoming part of

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. Chisholm Institute has campuses in Dandenong, Springvale, Berwick, Frankston, Wonthaggi, Cranbourne, and Mornington Peninsula Campus along with central

. Berwick Technical Education Centre (TEC) was established at the Berwick campus with the new building completed in 2009. A new trade careers centre worth $26 million associated with the TEC was announced in the 2011 State Budget in May.Peter Strachan,
Building a future at Berwick's Chisholm Institute
'', Berwick Leader, 11 May 2011. Accessed 27 September 2011 Chisolm Tafe 2021 b

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External links

Chisholm Institute Website

Chisholm Institute Official Facebook Page"Report Recommends Urgent Cash Injection to Rebuild Victoria's Largest TAFE"
Educational institutions established in 1998 TAFE Colleges in Melbourne 1998 establishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-school-stub

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