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Chemical operators at Millenium Chemicals were the winners from a recent collaboration between Murdoch University and the South West Regional College of TAFE (Bunbury).The partners used a $49,000 grant from the Western Australian Science and Technology Innovation Fund over 12 months to tailor the TAFE chemical operator’s certificate specifically to local industry needs. Associate Professor Renato Schibeci from Murdoch’s School of Education said the aim of the grant was to lift the game of vocational trainers, and to give people working at the ‘coal face’ of industry the tools to solve new problems. “Murdoch played a key role as a ‘critical friend’ - working as an independent party in drawing the necessary information together,” he said. “Our job was to facilitate the discussion and contact between people at both Millenium Chemicals and TAFE to discover ways to improve the certificate course.” According to Professor Schibeci the grant provided the impetus and the resources to improve the certificate course, by freeing people’s time for discussions which led to a rewriting of the chemical operator’s certificate modules. “Hopefully this project will be a model for other industries to work with their local registered training organisation to make courses more industry responsive,” he said. |
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