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< REGISTER OF CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROVIDERS

Bendigo TAFE

Contact details: Doug Baker, Teaching Department Manager
Email: dbaker@britafe.vic.edu.au
Phone: 03 5434 1605
Website: www.bendigotafe.edu.au
Registered Training Organisation: Yes
Training provided in: Victoria

Training provided

Non-accredited training delivered
Principles of cultural heritage management (Burra Charter basics) Site recording and documentation Mapping skills and techniques

Accredited courses

Training package	Unit title	Unit code
Conservation & Land Management - Certificate II	Maintain cultural places	AHCILM201A
	Record information about country	AHCILM203A
Conservation and Land Management - Certificate III	Provide appropriate information on cultural knowledge	AHCILM302A
Conservation & Land Management - Certificate IV	Report on place of potential cultural significance	AHCILM402A
Conservation & Land Management - Diploma	Conduct field research into natural and cultural resources	AHCILM501A
	Implement natural and cultural resource management plans	AHCLPW505A
Forest and Forest Product Industry - Certificate III	Plan burning activities natural and cultural resource management	FPINCR033A
	Utilise burning for natural and cultural resource management	FPINCR034A
SIT07 - Certificate I in Tourism (Australian Indigenous Culture)	Interpret aspects of local Australian Indigenous cultures	THTFTG08B

Trainers

Bendigo TAFE trainers are non-Indigenous and experienced in delivering training to Indigenous people. The training is delivered through a partnership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Qualifications

The following staff are the key contacts in regard to cultural heritage management training; however we employ a number of contract staff (10) in the implementation of our Indigenous related programs:

• Tony Mission - Senior Educator. Course coordinator of the Conservation and Land Management (CLM) program. Relevant qualifications include Bachelor of Applied Science - Parks Recreation and Heritage, Diploma in Natural Resource Management, Graduate Certificate of VET, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. 15 years in the industry.
• Jarrod Coote - Teacher. 16 years in the industry. Relevant qualifications include Diploma of CLM, Associate Diploma in Applied Science (Natural Resource Management) and Certificate IV Training and Assessment. Relevant experience includes management of a cemetery memorial project for WA Department of Indigenous Affairs, Indigenous consultation on land tenure changes and business development, and pest plant and animal extension projects with various stakeholders.
• Meigan Waayers - Teacher. 16 years in the industry. Relevant qualifications include Diploma in Natural Resource Management and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Experience includes teaching Conservation & Land Management Certificate II & III to Indigenous trainees delivered in partnership with Parks Victoria, CMA's and others; 14 months as Regional Coordinator of the Working on Country Indigenous Ranger program with the Kimberley Land Council in Western Australia; and 10 years with Department of Primary Industries involved with a range of programs relating to weeds, pest animals, biodiversity monitoring, revegetation and landcare.

Training experience

Bendigo TAFE`s Primary Industries teaching department works closely with the Koorie Liaison Officers, their Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Groups, and Parks Victoria Indigenous staff under the Wurreker Strategy. Over the past twenty years Bendigo TAFE has successfully coordinated many Indigenous training programs throughout Victoria. Bendigo TAFE aims to give all their Koorie participants the best educational experience possible.

Certificates II and III in Conservation and Land Management have been delivered to Indigenous students, in including trainees in Parks Victoria. Heritage training (reporting on places of potential cultural significance) is also delivered within the Diploma program. The Koori unit from Echuca work closely with the local (Yorta Yorta) Parks staff on a range of programs in the Barmah National Park. In 2010, the Bendigo TAFE won the prestigious Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Incorporated Wurreker Award for Victorian TAFE Training Provider of the year. This Award is proof of our participation in the Wurreker Strategy and our partnership arrangement to support career development and employment outcomes for Koorie students. Parks Victoria, the Department of Sustainability, North Central Catchment Management Authority and the Department of Primary Industries play a big part in Bendigo TAFE's NAIDOC Celebrations and they are all sponsors of the Koorie student scholarship awards.

Recent experience

Bendigo TAFE has delivered cultural heritage management training to an Indigenous group within the last 12 months (valid at October 2011).