Apprenticeships
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Taya and 'the non-traditional talent pool'
When Taya York was only 10 years old, she helped her mum paint their house. She is now painting other people’s houses as part of her apprenticeship with the Master Painters Group Training Company (MPGTC). |
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Trades on the move: electrotechnology to management
In the first year of his apprenticeship, Daniel Crisp worked at ANSTO’s new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, where his employer ‘did all the electrical work: light & power, booster pumps, back-up diesel generators and uninterruptable power supply (UPS) units.’
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Training success – Roy Young pharmacy
The chance sighting of ‘a little advert about a traineeship’ when she first left school has led Katrina (Kate) Hamilton to her current position: Assistant Buyer with Roy Young pharmacy in Chatswood. |
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Brenton the Builder
It’s a school day, but high school student Brenton Pearce is working on a building site at Saratoga on the NSW central coast. Brenton is a ‘school-based apprentice’ and spends one day on-site, one day at TAFE — and the remaining school days at school, working towards his HSC.
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Bricks and books?
An impressive new brick barbeque (dubbed the ‘Taj Mahal’ by students) and a much-needed brick retaining wall have been built at two campuses of the Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College on the Central Coast, thanks to a hard-working group of young student bricklayers.
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