IT was wonderful to see that a $10 million technical school would be built in Bendigo as part of a Labor plan to build 10 such schools across regional Victoria.
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I attended the Bendigo Institute of Technology in the 1970s and studied their clothing studies course. I loved the course and have worked in the textile industry all of my working life.
You can imagine how disappointed I was two years ago when I learned that the clothing studies course had been axed at Bendigo TAFE.
I am now in my 60s and I am not sure how much longer I can work before I retire. The thing that concerns me is what is going to happen when no one is trained is clothing studies any longer in Bendigo?
Fortunately Labor has seen the problem that will arise in the future if young people do not have a tech school education.
A $1.3 billion investment is certainly going to be money well spent in the future, money that will produce the next generation of dressmakers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, chefs, bakers and so many other trades.
It is great that Daniel Andrews, Jacinta Allan and Maree Edwards have taken this problem seriously and have promised to fix it.
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