Victoria’s Tech Schools provide high-tech, hands-on STEM programs to secondary school students in their local areas. Tech Schools are a dynamic, empowering environment where students can design their own solutions to real-world problems.
In 2014, the Victorian Government invested $128 million to create 10 Tech Schools across the state, each using leading-edge technology and innovation to prepare students to flourish in the rapidly changing global economy.
In 2023, the Victorian Government invested $116 million to build 6 new Tech Schools and establish a Clean Energy Equipment Fund. The 6 new Tech Schools will be in Brimbank, Dandenong, Frankston, Hume, Wangaratta and Warrnambool.
Tech Schools are part of Victoria’s STEM education centre network, which also include Science and Mathematics Specialist Centres, Knox Innovation, Opportunity and Sustainability Centre and STEM Centre of Excellence.
Impact
Independent assessments have found that Tech Schools:
- increased student engagement in STEM with 88% of surveyed students indicating learning something new and evidence suggesting Tech Schools influence VCE subject choice
- enhanced STEM teaching capacity within partner schools with 86% interviewed teachers indicating changing teaching practices after engaging with a Tech School, and
- improved outcomes for industry by linking their needs to education with 81% interviewed industry partners stating partnering with a Tech School helped raise community knowledge about their industries.
The following video explains how Tech School experiences helped shape a former Tech School student’s post-school pathway.
Read the full report outlining Tech Schools impact:
- Tech Schools Evaluation Report June 2023 (DOCX, 25.2MB)
- Tech Schools Evaluation Report June 2023 (PDF, 10.9MB)
Learn more
Discover your local Tech School or STEM education centre
Information in your language
Contact tech.schools@education.vic.gov.au to request accessible word documents.
Tech Schools information (flyer), available in different languages.
- Plain English (PDF, 2MB)
- Arabic (PDF, 2MB)
- Chin (PDF, 2MB)
- Chinese simplified (PDF, 2MB)
- Dari (PDF, 2MB)
- Greek (PDF, 2MB)
- Hindi (PDF, 2MB)
- Karen (PDF, 2MB)
- Korean (PDF, 2MB)
- Malayalam (PDF, 2MB)
- Nuer (PDF, 2MB)
- Punjabi (PDF, 2MB)
- Sinhalese (PDF, 2MB)
- Thai (PDF, 2MB)
- Vietnamese (PDF, 2MB)
Contact
For more information on Tech Schools, email tech.schools@education.vic.gov.au.
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