An $8.1 million public schools trade training centre in Tuggeranong is to begin operation when school resumes on Monday.
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Funded under round four of the former Labor government's trades in schools program, the Sustainable Living Trade Training Centre is based at Erindale College and will provide services for more than 2100 students from six public schools across the southern ACT.
The Tuggeranong centre is coming online less than three months after the Abbott government confirmed it would fund a similar centre in Belconnen to service the northern part of the territory.
Schools serviced by the Tuggeranong centre are to include Calwell High School, Caroline Chisholm School, Lake Tuggeranong College, Lanyon High School, Wanniassa School Senior Campus and Namadgi School.
As part of the spend, seven existing buildings have been upgraded to provide construction and automotive workshops, commercial kitchens and horticultural training facilities.
The Belconnen Regional Trade Skills Centre, which is due for completion in 2016, will deliver specialist training in the automotive, construction, engineering, food processing, furnishing, horticultural and hospitality trades.
It will provide services to more than 2100 students from the University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra, Belconnen High, Canberra High, Hawker College, Kingsford Smith School, Melba Copland Secondary School and University of Canberra High School Kaleen.
A large number of ACT Catholic schools received funding for trade training in the earlier rounds of the program and their centres have been up and running for some time.
Funding for a $1.15 million centre at the Trinity Christian School in Wanniassa and a $200,000 facility at Marist College in Pearce was also confirmed by the Abbott government earlier this year.