Early childhood education TAFE courses
Mr EDBROOKE (Frankston) (10:02): It is not every day you get to visit the Chisholm Institute of TAFE in Frankston, the flagship in the south-east, with the Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education, the wonderful member for Carrum, to meet students on their very first day of a new course and a new career. But that is what we did last Wednesday, as we roll out landmark reforms to deliver a full 15 hours of three-year-old kinder, 4000 additional kinder teachers and the more than 2000 additional early childhood educators that are needed as the program expands statewide. We got to meet some of the students. Thanks to the students enrolled in the early childhood educators free TAFE course for letting us join them, and thanks to the kids for the painting tips as well.