Kangan Institute
Australian vocational education and training college
Kangan Institute is a TAFE (technical and further education) provider in Melbourne, Australia.
History
Kangan Institute was established as the Broadmeadows College of TAFE on 28 February 1986, when it was formally opened by Prime Minister Bob Hawke. It was originally built to cater for 3000 students at a cost of $13.5 million. It subsequently acquired a series of other campuses in its first decade, including at Avondale Heights, Essendon and Moreland.
In August 1995, the institution was renamed the Kangan Institute of TAFE in honour of Myer Kangan, the founder of the TAFE system in Australia. On 1 July 1997, it merged with the John Batman College of TAFE to form Kangan Batman TAFE. The merger resulted in the closure of the former John Batman TAFE's campus in Gaffney Street, Coburg, but the amalgamated body expanded again in 1998 when it absorbed the Richmond Automotive Campus of Barton TAFE after a major state government review.
The Avondale Heights campus closed in 2005. The "Automotive Centre of Excellence" campus at Docklands initially opened in September 2006; the completion of the three-stage Docklands development in 2011 resulted in the closure of the remaining Coburg campus (Dawson Street). The organisation reverted to the "Kangan Institute" name in 2010, dropping the reference to "Batman" from the 1997 merger.
In 2014, it formally merged with Bendigo TAFE to form the Bendigo Kangan Institute.
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