The Geelong region’s education and training facilities are amongst the best in Australia.

Deakin, one of Victoria’s top four universities, has two campuses in Geelong. The Waurn Ponds campus offers courses in Arts, Business and Management, Communication and Media, Engineering, Government and Community, International Studies, Information Technology, Law, Psychology, Science, Teaching and Medicine.

The Waterfront Geelong campus provides Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Architecture and Construction Management.

The Gordon Institute of TAFE provides high-quality vocational education and training. The Gordon provides approximately 220 certificate and diploma courses and some 200 specialist and short courses.

The Marcus Oldham Farm Management College is Australia’s leading rural business management college and attracts students from across Australia and overseas.

Primary and secondary schools in the Geelong region have a reputation for excellence including the renowned Geelong Grammar School, Geelong College and Kardinia International College.

Read real life case studies below.

The growth of the Geelong region’s health industry is supported by its three ‘pillars’ of research, education and biotechnology... READ MORE

Childcare in Greater Geelong has grown as the area has expanded and developed in recent years... READ MORE

The last Dalgety woolstores in Geelong sat unloved on the Corio Bay waterfront until the mid-1990s when they were revitalised to become the city campus of Deakin University. A symbol of Geelong’s illustrious wool heritage, the old brick woolstores had come to represent ‘old’ Geelong... READ MORE

From her home on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, Maureen Billy was hardly spoilt for local universities. So when she decided to study social work, she looked at courses Australia-wide... READ MORE

When anglers take out their boats to fish in the waters of Port Phillip Bay and around the surf coast, they’re not just enjoying a day out on the sea, they’re an important link in the chain of information that helps Victoria’s Marine and Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute(MAFFRI) gather vital information about the health of the marine environment... READ MORE

A hundred years ago, the first production Model T Ford was assembled in Detroit. It was the world’s first lowpriced car and, as such, introduced motoring to the masses. A century on, Deakin University students have taken up the challenge to design a modern-day equivalent of the original “people’s car”... READ MORE

Depleting oil reserves and rising petrol costs are adding urgency to the quest to make cars more fuel-efficient. Part of the solution is to make cars lighter so they use less energy, and that’s just what Deakin PhD researcher Mandy Herring is working towards...READ MORE

A Geelong posting has given Melbourne-based academic Christopher Heathcote the chance to create a new visual arts degree program with a groundbreaking environmental focus...READ MORE

Students don’t listen for bells at Geelong’s Kardinia International College. Instead, they simply head into class according to their individual timetables. And fast-tracked 13-year-olds may be in the same class as 17-year-olds...READ MORE

Prep children writing blogs and managing their own timetables? It’s part of daily life at Bellaire Primary School in Highton. The school’s “personalised learning” philosophy involves students setting their own goals, developing self-assessment skills and becoming independent learners... READ MORE

Over the next few years, the new suburb of Armstrong Creek will emerge on the paddocks south of Geelong. The suburb, only minutes from the Geelong waterfront, will accommodate more than 50,000 people. The City of Greater Geelong has developed a masterplan for the growth area, which covers 2500 hectares. The aim is to encourage highly liveable communities with a focus on accessible activity centres that include retail, commercial and education facilities... READ MORE

Emblazoned on the side of the Construction and Horticulture Facility at the Gordon Institute of TAFE is a giant ruler, graduated with the guernsey numbers of the Geelong footballers who had won the club’s sixth Premiership 44 years earlier, in 1963... READ MORE

Quality, location and cost. These were the three major factors Matt Griffiths considered when deciding on a course that would secure him a career in graphic design... READ MORE

From the first wool being sent to England from Geelong in 1841 to the different ships and cargoes that enter the Port of Geelong today, students from secondary schools in and around Geelong are learning about the port’s place in the region’s history... READ MORE

Regional communities are enjoying record investment, population and employment growth, but it is becoming increasingly clear that there is an emerging shortage of skills and labour... READ MORE

Performing arts teacher Tanya Stewart knows how important the arts are to a child’s development, so when an opportunity came along to take her five-month old daughter to a performance of Milly, Jack and the Dancing Cat at the Colac Otways Performing Arts and Cultural Centre (COPACC), Ms Stewart didn’t hesitate... READ MORE

It might be the new kid on the block but Barwon Sports Academy is already achieving considerable success and rapid growth – great news for promising athletes who are still at school... READ MORE

Living at Jan Juc on the Surf Coast, 19-year-old hurdler Monique Booth belongs to the Geelong Athletics Club and makes the 50-kilometre return trip to Geelong for training six nights a week. The start of the athletics season this month means her schedule will change, to training five nights a week and competing on Saturdays... READ MORE

From his studio window, Leigh Chiller surveys the horse paddocks of Connewarre, beyond which the surf is pounding. It is a peaceful environment where this wellknown landscape artist is preparing for his latest exhibition... READ MORE

Taking a yoga class or tinkering with a car are great ways to learn, although they might not fall under traditional definitions of education. They are also accessible at any time of life... READ MORE

Emma Clark never imagined studying beyond year 12.
“When I left school I was never, ever going to study; I hated study, I was going to go out and work and there was no way I was ever going to set foot in a university,” she recalls... READ MORE

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