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New day for training Plans for a $5 million training facility in Rutherford unveiled
THE BIG SWITCH At 9am last Tuesday, analog signals across Northern NSW were switched off for over 550,000 household and Hunter residents trying to watch free to air without a digital TV or a digital set-top box were left with snowy screens. In Thornton, community and Council representatives gathered together to countdown the switchover, with many of those in attendance wellprepared for the change.
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HVTC executive director Kay Sharp, Robyn Parker and HVTC chairman, Bob Cameron inspecting the plans for the new centre Photo: KRISTY HODGSON
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n what is being seen as a positive move for jobs and job training in the Hunter region, plans to build a $5 million Skills Centre at Rutherford were unveiled by the Hunter Valley Training Company (HVTC) on Thursday. HVTC chairman, Bob Cameron AO, said HVTC apprentices and trainees from its HunterV-Tec arm, currently located at East Greta
Junction, will benefit from the new facility. The new Spitfi re Place centre will overcome some of the challenges of the current heritagelisted site, which has a privately operated railway system with access to the mainline, Mr Cameron said. “The new centre will enable HVTC to meet the changing nature of training and provide even higher quality training to apprentices and trainees,� he said. “We will have better facilities and more space to offer new courses, non-accredited, accredited and short courses, alongside
traditional training.� The new facility is expected to keep and grow jobs in the Hunter region. “These new facilities will benefit people and employers across the Hunter and beyond,� Maitland MP, Robyn Parker, said. Hunter-V-Tec provides training to more than 185 apprentices and trainees a year, specialising in training apprentices in traditional trades for the mining, manufacturing and rail industries. Work on the new facility is expected to begin early next year, with the centre operational from early 2014.
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