Holmesglen TAFE – led research into educational escape rooms

Holmesglen’s Dr Harrison Burgin and Ms Kim Kenwell have been disseminating the findings of their applied research project which focused on innovative teaching and learning methods in Holmesglen’s Faculty of Health Science, Community and Social Studies. One of the research projects explored how educational escape rooms can be used as a method of allowing students to apply their learning to a series of problems, promoting collaborative problem solving. The aim is to develop learners’ transferable skills; their communication, problem solving, time management and critical thinking – the skills that are hard to teach in a classroom.

Chisholm fills early childhood skilled worker gap

Chisholm Institute has reduced the shortage of skilled workers in early childhood education and care – and is now making a global impact.

To address the sector’s critical workforce challenges, Chisholm partnered with Early Childhood Education Centres across the state, the Victorian Department of Education and Training, and Jobs Victoria, to lead the Early Childhood Education Traineeship Project (2022 –2024).

The project initially aimed to employ 150 trainees across Victoria. The team exceeded this target, employing 520 job seekers into traineeships.