Our courses
Choose a practical pathway for your future.
Explore thirteen qualifications across construction trades, leadership, management, commercial cookery, patisserie and hospitality.
Learn through practical application
Training that connects knowledge with the workplace.
Tradie Skills College delivers applied vocational training for construction trades, business leadership and hospitality. Students build technical understanding alongside the judgement, confidence and practical capability needed for real responsibilities.
Choose a specialist construction trade, develop leadership and management capability, or build practical skills for commercial kitchens, patisserie and hospitality operations.
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Thirteen qualifications. One practical focus.
Compare each course's focus, duration, supplied unit selection and possible occupational direction. Every course is available at both the Melbourne and Geelong campuses.
Certificate IIICourse code: CPC31320
Wall and Floor Tiling
Develop practical tiling skills and technical knowledge for residential and commercial construction projects.
- National structure
- 20 units: 17 core and 3 elective
- Duration
- 52 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $9,500 AUD
Certificate IIICourse code: CPC31020
Solid Plastering
Build hands-on solid plastering capability, technical knowledge, accuracy and quality workmanship.
- National structure
- 20 units: 15 core and 5 elective
- Duration
- 52 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $9,500 AUD
Certificate IIICourse code: CPC33020
Bricklaying and Blocklaying
Learn to prepare, set out and construct brick and block work safely and to industry standards.
- National structure
- 28 units: 20 core and 8 elective
- Duration
- 52 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $9,500 AUD
Certificate IVCourse code: CPC40120
Building and Construction
Develop the knowledge required to plan, coordinate and take greater responsibility for building projects.
- National structure
- 19 units: 11 core and 8 elective
- Duration
- 40 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $8,500 AUD
Certificate IIICourse code: CPC31220
Wall and Ceiling Lining
Develop practical skills for installing, constructing and finishing wall and ceiling systems.
- National structure
- 29 units: 22 core and 7 elective
- Duration
- 52 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $9,500 AUD
Certificate IIICourse code: MSF30422
Glass and Glazing
Build technical knowledge, precision and hands-on capability for residential and commercial glazing.
- National structure
- 23 units: 8 core and 15 elective
- Duration
- 52 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $9,500 AUD
Certificate IVCourse code: BSB40520
Leadership and Management
Develop the communication, planning and team leadership skills needed by emerging managers across a wide range of industries.
- National structure
- 12 units: 5 core and 7 elective
- Duration
- 78 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $10,000 AUD
DiplomaCourse code: BSB50420
Leadership and Management
Strengthen your ability to plan, communicate, manage risk and lead people through changing operational priorities.
- National structure
- 12 units: 6 core and 6 elective
- Duration
- 78 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $10,000 AUD
Advanced DiplomaCourse code: BSB60420
Leadership and Management
Apply advanced leadership, strategic planning and problem-solving skills to complex organisational responsibilities.
- National structure
- 10 units: 5 core and 5 elective
- Duration
- 78 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $10,000 AUD
Graduate DiplomaCourse code: BSB80120
Management (Learning)
Build highly specialised capability in organisational learning, strategic transformation and workforce development.
- National structure
- 8 units: 3 core and 5 elective
- Duration
- 104 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $14,500 AUD
Certificate IVCourse code: SIT40521
Kitchen Management
Develop commercial cookery expertise alongside the supervisory, planning and team skills needed to coordinate a professional kitchen.
- National structure
- 33 units: 27 core and 6 elective
- Duration
- 78 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $12,000 AUD
Certificate IVCourse code: SIT40721
Patisserie
Develop advanced pastry skills while learning to supervise production, coordinate teams and manage safe kitchen operations.
- National structure
- 32 units: 26 core and 6 elective
- Duration
- 78 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $12,000 AUD
DiplomaCourse code: SIT50422
Hospitality Management
Combine broad hospitality skills with the operational, financial and people-management capability required of senior hospitality professionals.
- National structure
- 28 units: 11 core and 17 elective
- Duration
- 78 weeks
- Campuses
- Melbourne and Geelong
- Total listed fees
- $12,000 AUD
Understand your options
What to consider before choosing.
The right pathway depends on the kind of work you want to do, your existing experience and the responsibility you want to hold in the industry.
Specialist trade work
Choose a Certificate III when you want to develop hands-on capability in a specific field such as tiling, plastering, masonry, lining or glazing.
Leadership and management
Develop communication, planning, team leadership, operational management and organisational capability from Certificate IV through Graduate Diploma level.
Cookery and hospitality
Build practical kitchen, patisserie or hospitality-management capability through commercial training activities, workplace scenarios and service-focused learning.
Confirm current delivery details before applying
Course structures and durations use TSC's supplied training information, while entry requirements retain TSC's current published standard. Fees are available on the Pricing page. Intake dates, timetables, unit order and exact practical-session locations can change, and licensing or registration requirements vary by role and jurisdiction.
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