Small Training Provider of the Year Award

Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP) provides quality learning and teaching in a faith-centred environment. It comprises of eighty schools and five early learning centres.

CEDP’s strategic intent is to provide quality Catholic schooling by strengthening the professional lives of staff, to improve the learning outcomes for each student within a Catholic faith community. This is also its greatest challenge; to ensure it is responsive to its communities and changing societal expectations.

CEDP RTO exists to extend study options for its students. The majority of CEDP’s VET students are aged 14 - 18 and are beginning their vocational journey. Providing students with opportunities to explore their interests is the driver for CEDP RTO under its strategic intent to improve the learning outcomes for each student.

Wisdom Learning is a Canberra-based registered training organisation delivering training, facilitation and consulting services across Australia.

The RTO delivers a range of qualifications ranging from Certificate III to Graduate Diploma levels, across fields such as property services, training and education, government, investigations and business services.

Wisdom Learning strives to help people and organisations reach their full potential. The Wisdom team understands that focusing on big and little things helps make every client feel valued, important and supported.

The staff at Wisdom Learning prides themselves on the commitment they have to their clients’ experience, whether they be individually enrolled participants, employers, or professionals seeking learning and development solutions for their organisations.

Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (KAMS) Registered Training Organisation is committed to providing high quality VET training in the Kimberley region.

KAMS has been involved in training since 1983, when the first cohort of Aboriginal Health Workers graduated in Broome.

The RTO was first established to offer a local option to study Aboriginal Health Work without having to relocate to Perth. To support the students, KAMS has a dedicated Indigenous Regional Facilitator who works with health providers across the Kimberley to ensure students can achieve the requisite placements and experiences. 

KAMS offers two courses, a Certificate III and a Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care.

Overall, the Aboriginal Health Worker training program has seen more than 400 Aboriginal Health Workers graduate. Some Aboriginal Health Workers have gone on to become trainers within the School, some Registered Nurses and some are the very first Aboriginal Doctors from the Kimberley.

Wisdom is a high performing, high quality Registered Training Organisation with a long-standing reputation for delivering outstanding learning, facilitation and consulting services, most significantly in the ACT. Wisdom has broad service delivery expertise and experience across the private and public sector nationally.

Wisdom has 24 qualifications on its nationally recognised scope of registration, from Certificate III to Graduate Diploma levels, across property services, training and education, business services, leadership and project management, and government.

The most popular course is the Certificate IV in Property Services (real estate), which directly supports the fulfilment of ACT’s skills requirements. More than 1000 graduates are now employed in the ACT real estate and property management workforce.

In the past four years, more than 650 trainees/apprentices, mostly ACT residents, have completed qualifications with Wisdom.

PEER is a non-profit industry-based registered training and group training organisation that delivers nationally accredited training packages to meet South Australia’s skill development needs.

PEER’s Chief Executive Officer, Peter Nolan, said that back in 2016, PEER set a bold vision to become Australia’s leading learning organisation. A goal that was achieved when it was recognised as the Small Training Provider of the Year at the 2018 Australian Training Awards.

“Over the past couple of years, we have taken PEER to the next level of: operational excellence, world class learning resources, student centered learning and caring for our students,” Peter said.

“We are honoured to be recognised as a leading learning organisation.

“PEER apprentices consistently win state and national awards and seeing PEER graduates become success stories in their own right, is exceptionally rewarding.”

As a group training organisation, PEER is the largest employer of apprentices within the building and construction industry in South Australia, with more than 400 apprentices and trainees. It also delivers pre-vocational training, VET in Schools, short upskilling courses and skills recognition.

PEER’s training is customised and personalised to accommodate the learning styles of each student delivered by qualified professional trainers.

PEER has been a member of the Australian VET Alumni since 2018.

The Institute of Culinary Excellence (ICE) is a top tier private cookery school and registered training organisation.

It offers high-class culinary career training to apprentices and trainee chefs.

The trainers are some of the best in the industry who are lucky enough to teach in world-class training kitchens in the institute’s Coorparoo and Kelvin Grove campuses.

ICE is currently training apprentices from nine out of the 10 top restaurants in Brisbane. ICE ensures the apprentices have personalised training that best suits their needs and those of their workplace.

ICE teaches up-to-date, modern food practices and trends, and encourages students to break the food barriers and stay current with new food trends, which constantly change. This gives them the skills to take on any challenge or job, and helps them become the best they can be here in Australia, and internationally in their chosen trade.

Auswest Specialist Education and Training Services provide registered vocational, developmental and tertiary training and appropriate supporting education in Western Australia’s prisons to a uniquely disadvantaged group of adult learners. ASETS’ client group is characterised by students from diverse and challenging backgrounds, many of which have suffered from lower levels of educational attainment and poor or non-existent work experience.

When residing in the community, these groups face many social, economic and systematic barriers to participation in education and training. ASETS works to address these barriers and the multiple disadvantages their student’s experience, by customising learning materials and services to meet individual needs.

Their comprehensive vocational training program is recognised as a model of best practice by Australian and overseas criminal justice jurisdictions. The engaging training programs offered range from stop motion animation to rehabilitation for black cockatoos and have seen decreased reoffending rates and increased employment retention for prisoners post custody.