Wednesday, 19 November 2025

 John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (18:22): (2150) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Education in the other place. Thousands of students across the state have just finished their VCE exams, moving over to further education. In my electorate of Southern Metropolitan Region, Holmesglen Vocational College offers a two-year VCE Vocational Major program through their trades academy for students aged between 16 and 18, with a focus on practical, hands-on learning to promote employability skills in a vocational setting alongside key education in literacy, numeracy and personal development and progressing in either a pre-apprenticeship, a traineeship or a full apprenticeship in the second year of the program. As a former secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, I know how important the trades are in employment, the economy and state development, and I think it is excellent that our Labor government is committed to supporting vocational education and training for young people. The action that I seek is for the minister to update me on how the Allan Labor government is supporting the Holmesglen Institute in Chadstone and what more the government is doing to support vocational education in my electorate of Southern Metro.