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About us

Bendigo Kangan Institute is the registered entity for four trading brands – Bendigo TAFE, Kangan Institute, eWorks, and VETASSESS.

For more than 150 years, we’ve been helping people change lives through the power of education and skills.

Today, Bendigo Kangan Institute is proud to be an integrated skills provider, combining multi-faceted services with innovative solutions to meet the needs of learners, employers and industries.

We do this in three ways: delivering vocational training and education, providing skills assessments locally and overseas, and designing interactive e-learning for business.

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Our reach is as diverse as the people we serve.

From producing job-ready graduates and co-designing learning programs, to recognising global talent that strengthens the Australian economy, we build local talent pipelines, support skilled migration and upskill entire industries – helping employers, governments and learners navigate the changing world of work with confidence.

Backed by the Victorian government, we operate 10 campuses in metropolitan and regional Victoria, Australia, along with offices in China and India. Our tailored services reach customers wherever they are, in Australia or around the world. Through our diverse offering and reach through multiple locations, we stay in step with global skills trends and offer our expertise near and far.

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Fast facts

Winner
Large Training Provider of the Year 2025 – Australia
Largest
Australian skills assessment provider with 360+ occupations
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skills assessments annually
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students annually
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courses in high priority areas
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staff

Our strengths

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Helping industries and economies grow

We are helping respond to skills shortages across Victoria, and nationally, ensuring communities flourish.

Our multi-faceted services mean we support the full skills cycle – from training and upskilling, to skills assessments and e-learning design – helping industries fill critical gaps.

We play a key role building skills in health, trades, digital and the clean economy – areas shaping the future and needing skilled people most. Not all skills are in short supply but still essential. Your high street hairdresser, café, pet groomer, and mechanic are providing services in the community thanks to skills training.

We’re also authorised by the Australian Government to assess more occupations than anyone else.

Our expertise in tailoring workforce employment solutions helps businesses upskill staff and address capability gaps. From leadership and management to cultural capability, we support immediate needs and long-term workforce development.

Putting students and customers at the centre

With training offered at multiple campuses, corrections facilities and workplaces across Melbourne and regional Victoria, along with assessment offices overseas, we deliver skills training and assessments to students and customers from disperse locations.

Alongside traditional formats, we’re continually evolving our delivery to meet the changing needs of our students and customers through a range of technologies, teaching formats, and methodologies.

Our assessors who provide skills assessments to skilled migrants regularly travel interstate to meet with customers where required, and our interactive course designers work with businesses large and small.

Supporting a diverse learning community

Our students and customers come to us from Melbourne suburbs, Victorian regional cities and towns, interstate, and countries abroad.

Our more than 35,000 learners originate from 142 countries and collectively speak more than 100 languages.

Staff, students, and customers reflect the communities we operate in and go on to work in. Which is why we’re proud to welcome people from all gender, cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds, and ensuring inclusion so every ability thrives.

We’re also Victoria’s largest provider of corrections education, delivering across 11 correctional facilities.

Attracting skills experts

Whether a teacher, an assessor, or course designer, our skills experts bring knowledge and experience from their own careers and industries to students and customers.

Several of our experts have received awards for excellence but all are committed to seeing students and customers change their lives through training and skills – wherever they are.

Connecting with industry

Our close partnerships with industry enable students to have access to the latest thinking and an increased number of industry-connected educators in our courses.

Offering flexible access to skills and connecting our students and customers with employers at early stages accelerates their path to earning and enables them to balance their studies with work commitments.

Our locations and centres of excellence

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Regional Victoria

Bendigo City

Signage and entrance to the Bendigo TAFE Food & Fibre Centre of Excellence at the Charleston Road Campus

Regional Victoria

Bendigo Charleston Road

Exterior view of the Kangan Institute Health and Community Centre of Excellence (HaCCoE) building at Broadmeadows, featuring multiple floors with vertical wooden or brown slats covering the windows.

Melbourne

Broadmeadows

Spacious interior of a training facility, featuring a simulation ward with several hospital beds and a large, adjacent classroom area with long tables and chairs.

Regional Victoria

Castlemaine

Interior of a brightly lit digital workshop space at Kangan Institute Cremorne, featuring a colorful mural on the wall, and students or instructors working on laptops and interacting with a small robotic dog.

Melbourne

Cremorne

New Delhi

Overseas

New Delhi

Exterior of the modern Kangan Institute Docklands Campus building, featuring a distinct, angular metal facade, set against a backdrop of tall corporate skyscrapers and tram lines in the foreground.

Melbourne

Docklands

Exterior view of a contemporary building at Bendigo TAFE Echuca campus with large, sloped windows and green/olive checkered panels

Regional Victoria

Echuca

The facade of the Kangan Institute Essendon campus building, which exhibits classic red and beige brickwork and horizontal window bands

Melbourne

Essendon

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Melbourne

Melton

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Overseas

Shanghai

Exterior view of the Hume Global Learning Centre in Sunbury, a building with contemporary, angular architecture and large glass windows, featuring a sign post detailing the services offered.

Melbourne

Sunbury



Our outcomes and impact

Students and customers 

We’re ensuring high quality services so every student and customer can take their next step. Whether through training or skills assessment, we make sure they’re job-ready with the qualifications they needed – and the experience they expect.

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“From someone who didn’t know anything, to now diagnostics and repairing.”

Phoebe Pratt, automotive apprentice

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“I am 100% invested in following a career path that would lead me to cybersecurity.”

Connor Cushen, cybersecurity student

“It’s changed me as a person.”

“It’s changed me as a person.”

Leanne Simpson, nursing student

Partnerships and employers

We are delivering innovative solutions and partnerships that shape industries, education, and assessment. We’re doing this by contributing to Australia’s skilled workforce, being a trusted advisor in designing and delivering innovative skills solutions and being a go-to training partner.

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“Our partnership with Bendigo TAFE will build local employment and career progression pathways.”

Vanessa Healy, Dhelkaya Health Board Chair

“This partnership with Kangan Institute has allowed us to share technical knowledge gained from millions of km’s of real-world experience.”

“This partnership with Kangan Institute has allowed us to share technical knowledge gained from millions of km’s of real-world experience.”

Neil Wang, Foton Mobility Distribution

Workforce and organisational sustainability

We’re empowering and enabling Bendigo Kangan Institute’s people and communities to thrive, and in a considered and sustainable way to ensure it’s easy for customers and industry to do business with us.

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“The work we do at VETASSESS contributes directly to building Australia’s skilled workforce.”

Michael Nuestro, skills assessor

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“Vocational education has the power to transform lives and strengthen communities, and I am proud to play a small part in that journey.”

Tarmi A’Vard, justice teacher

Find out more

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View our 2030 Strategic Plan: Growth for Impact and our latest Annual Report, and discover how we’re shaping the future of skills and education.

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Or visit the websites of our four trading brands – Bendigo TAFE, Kangan Institute, eWorks, and VETASSESS – to learn more about learning, partnering or working 
with us.

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Bendigo Kangan Institute
56-69 Pearcedale Pde, Broadmeadows VIC 3047 | PO Box 299, Somerton, VIC 3062
ABN 74 802 942 886 | Trading as Bendigo TAFE, Kangan Institute, VETASSESS, eWorks 
RTO No. 3077 | RTO No. 21097 | CRICOS Provider No. 01218G

Bendigo Kangan Institute acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of the cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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