HUNTER TAFE is reviewing plans to sell its Scone campus, five months after a leaked cabinet document named it among 27 sites across the state to be sold for a total of $62.97 million.
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The Newcastle Herald reported in September the document listed four Hunter campuses – Scone, Muswellbrook, Belmont and Glendale – to be fully or partially sold for a combined $6.47 million.
But institute director Christine Warrington said TAFE was still developing its strategic asset management plan and was revising the listed $1.17 million sale of the Scone campus, which delivers programs including agriculture, animal care, farriery and equine.
“TAFE is already delivering industry-based on-the-job training in the Upper Hunter region and is committed to continuing to deliver training in the region,” Ms Warrington said in a statement.
“TAFE NSW is making targeted investments aimed at creating more specialised and flexible learning facilities, rather than maintaining older facilities that are no longer utilised.”
Ms Warrington has previously said the institute was always looking at assets and how it could reduce overheads to maintain an edge in the increasingly competitive market.
