Motto | Real education. Real skills. Real jobs. |
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Type | TAFE Institute |
Established | 1997 with historical antecedents from 1925 |
CEO | Trevor Schwenke |
Administrative staff
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1200 |
Students | 35000 |
Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Campus | Broadmeadows, Docklands, Richmond |
Colors | Yellow, Black |
Website | http://www.kangan.edu.au/ |
Kangan Institute is a Technical and Further Education provider located over a number of campuses in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It specialises in health, after market automotive, fashion, visual merchandising, hospitality and commercial cookery, business, accounting and IT, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, building and construction and engineering courses.
Kangan Institute dates back to 1925 was involved in the merger of three major institutes—John Batman, Broadmeadows College and the Richmond automotive campus of Barton Institute of TAFE.
Kangan Institute has five Melbourne campuses.
Broadmeadows campus
Kangan Institute's campus in Broadmeadows houses purpose-built training facilities such as the Transport and Logistics centre. It also holds the Richards restaurant, which trains hospitality students both as waiters and chefs.
Docklands campus
The Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) at Docklands is the purpose built automotive and International Language Centre. Opened in September 2006 it houses body trades training; incorporating vehicle paint, panel beating and body making.
Essendon campus
The Essendon campus offers business management, information technology and commerce course.
Richmond campus
The Richmond campus is home to study areas such as engineering, fashion and millinery, visual merchandising, hairdressing and beauty services and animal studies and VCAL.
Moonee Ponds campus
The Moonee Ponds Campus is a facility for the study of subjects such as nursing, children's services, aged care, disability and allied health services.
Kangan Institute offers nationally accredited courses from certificates to diplomas and graduate diplomas. Courses on offer focus on the following areas: