Education

Six Gippsland schools will be able to modernise and upgrade their education facilities thanks to individual Brumby Government boosts of between $300,000 and $500,000 each.

The new $11.8 million Lakeview Campus of Caroline Springs College will provide local senior secondary students with a state-of-the-art learning environment in their own community and give families more educational choice than ever before.

Nearly 500 Catholic schools across Victoria will benefit from a Brumby Government injection of $38.9 million in capital grants to rebuild and upgrade needy Catholic schools, vastly improving learning opportunities for the state’s 186,000 Catholic school students.

The Victorian Institute of Teaching’s role in regulating the teaching profession will be strengthened under a series of reforms being introduced by the Brumby Government.

Students at Roxburgh College can now practice, perform and learn in a state-of-the-art $1.43 million performing arts centre, officially opened today by Premier John Brumby.

A $3 million school upgrade package will see another six Victorian schools – including Mt Dandenong Primary School – benefit from better school buildings under the Brumby Government’s Better Schools Today initiative.

The Premier John Brumby today officially opened a new $25.2 million state-of-the-art school in South Morang which will give children in the area the opportunity to be educated in the most modern learning environment.

Doreen families will have access to a range of children’s services in one convenient location thanks to a $1.2 million Brumby Government grant to help establish the Laurimar Community Activity Centre.

An $8 million project to create a new science, art and technology wing at Newcomb Secondary College in Geelong will position the school at the leading edge of modern education, the Premier, John Brumby said today.

The centrepiece of a $3.75 million redevelopment at Gisborne Secondary College – two state-of-the-art buildings known as “learning neighbourhoods” – were officially opened today by Education Minister Bronwyn Pike.