Welcome to another RIST Round Up!
Last week we held our AGM at our Hamilton Campus. It was wonderful to reflect on the year that was 2023 and to discuss updates coming in new courses, content delivery and seeing the progress of our investment in technology and student facility renovations. We look forward to sharing a reveal video of these with you soon!
We warmly welcome new RIST Board Director Lachie Brown and offer our sincere thanks our outgoing Director and one of the founding members John Diprose OAM for his over 35 years of service and dedication to RIST (as a past Chairman of the Board, a Director and mentor) and our values, in ensuring the current and next generation of Agricultural professionals can gain access to local, dedicated Agricultural and Rural Industries training and education.
We are proud to recognise that through education and skills training at RIST, our local communities can grow stronger. And that empowering communities with education, knowledge and skills training, this upskills, retains and boosts local communities to thrive into the future.
If you would like to read a copy of the 2023 Official Annual Report you will find it HERE.
Students pictured recently at a Stock handling day and Specialised Machinery field trip.
Recently, You may have heard adverts promoting our Mid Year Course Intake on local radio. We are warmly welcoming mid year enrolments to our Certificate II, III and IV and Diploma of Agriculture Courses, and to our next Shearing School in Mortlake in June.
If you know someone that wants to study Agriculture but doesn’t want to leave home, Learn locally and study flexibly with RIST! GO HERE to more about mid year enrolment opportunities.
What’s coming up?
In June we are looking forward to a Student Information evening at Monivae College, followed by The Southern Grampians Careers Expo in July and of course the much anticipated Sheepvention in August!
To keep up to date with where we will be next please visit our Events page.
We are also welcoming Registrations for student Information Sessions in August. These events are your opportunity to get in touch, ask all the questions, gain copies of prospective student information and check out our facilities. If this sounds of interest to you, be sure to register your name to attend our Information Sessions HERE!
This week Raelene Laidlaw welcomed Skills Insight to RIST to host the Skills Insight Shearing and Wool Classing consultation workshop, an incredible opportunity to provide feedback to Skills Insight on the level of training and assessment required for our shearing and wool handling courses.
If you missed the chance to attend this feedback session, but you have something to say about the future of wool handling and shearer training in the future, Please get in touch with Skills Insight HERE.
Lastly, we leave you with words from the closing segment of the CEO’s Report in the 2023 Annual Report, as it sums up the sincere appreciation, we at RIST have for our students, their schools, family members and friends, employers, valued stakeholders, partners and our local communities that entrust RIST with their educational journeys.
“Together we forge ahead, empowered by our shared commitment to achieve excellence in education”.
Until next time…
Isn’t Technology incredible! Helen Read and Bill Hamill are pictured enjoying our updated classrooms at the Hamilton Campus.