TAFE South Australia (TAFE SA) provides

vocational education Vocational education is education that prepares people for a skilled craft. Vocational education can also be seen as that type of education given to an individual to prepare that individual to be gainfully employed or self employed with req ...

and training in the state of

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History

On 1 November 2012, TAFE SA became a

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, separate from the SA Government's Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology, under the ''TAFE SA Act 2012''. In December 2017, following a random audit of TAFE SA courses by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), 14 courses were affected for small discrepancies in assessment, affecting 630 students who were individually case-managed. The Weatherill government and Education Minister

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announced that the government would cover expenses for affected students.

Description

The acronym

TAFE 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 ...

stands for

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 ...

and is used and recognised nationally throughout Australia. TAFE SA is a

registered training organisation A registered training organisation (RTO), in Australia, is an organisation providing Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses to students, resulting in qualifications or statements of attainment that are recognised and accepted by indust ...

(RTO) and Institute of Higher Education under the jurisdiction of the ASQA and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). It is South Australia's largest vocational education and training provider, and provides training from entry-level certificates to

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s across the state of

. it has been awarded re-registration by ASQA as an RTO and Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students provider for a period of seven years. This is the longest accreditation period to date.

Administrative regions

TAFE SA campuses are divided into the following administrative areas: * TAFE SA

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and Fleurieu * TAFE SA Adelaide Metropolitan (covering campuses in Greater Adelaide) * TAFE SA APY Lands * TAFE SA Barossa and

Riverland The Riverland is a region of South Australia. It covers an area of along the Murray River, River Murray from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria downstream to Blanchetown, South Australia ...

* TAFE SA

Eyre Peninsula The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Earlier called Eyre's Peninsula, it was named after e ...

* TAFE SA Far North * TAFE SA Limestone Coast * TAFE SA

Yorke Peninsula The Yorke Peninsula, known as Guuranda by the original inhabitants, the Narungga people, is a peninsula located northwest and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east. The peninsula ...

and Mid North

Locations

Adelaide Metropolitan

The Adelaide Metropolitan group includes the following campuses: * Adelaide, in Currie Street,

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* Adelaide College of the Arts, at Light Square, Adelaide city centre * Elizabeth * Gilles Plains * Noarlunga * Regency, at Regency Park *

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* Tonsley * Urrbrae The Regency campus includes the Regency International Centre, which includes three training outlets open to the public: Graduates Function Centre; TIROS Restaurant; and Results Cafe. The Centre also includes the Artisan Cheese Making Academy Australia, the only training college dedicated to artisan cheese in Australia, and the Campus Brewery, a micro-brewery with associated plant.

Le Cordon Bleu Le Cordon Bleu (; French: " The Blue Ribbon"; LCB) is a French hospitality and culinary education institution, teaching haute cuisine. Its educational focuses are hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The institution consists ...

hotel management and culinary arts college, launched in 1992, is also based at the Regency campus, and is partnered with both TAFE SA and the

University of South Australia The University of South Australia is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1991, it is the successor of the former South Australian Institute of Technology. Its main campuses along North Terrace are ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control South Australia, TAFE Education in South Australia