As the oldest and largest vocational education and training provider in Australia, the Institute calls upon a long history of educational excellence and diversity.

The Institute delivers 758 courses to more than 63000 students annually, and has a large international student population due to its proximity to Sydney's central business district.

Around 3000 staff members are employed across the Institute's six Colleges. It has centres of excellence in Aviation, Baking Trades, Engineering, Fashion Design, Graphic Arts, Information Technology, Marine Technology and Multimedia.

The Institute local catchment area covers some of the more densely populated suburbs of Australia's largest city - Sydney; including Chippendale, Enmore, East Sydney, Randwick, Petersham and Ultimo. The area has a population of around 510 000, and is characterised by high levels of cultural diversity and migrant settlement.

The Institute was one of the first TAFE NSW Institutes to successfully seek certification by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), ensuring we are at the forefront in maintaining integrity of our quality control systems. Our rigorous Quality Management System was recommended for Certification as an achiever of international standards in Quality Management Systems, as specified by ISO Standard 9001: 2000.

Additionally TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute has formalised links between universities such as University of New South Wales, University of Technology, Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Wollongong and University of Western Sydney, where students can receive substantial credits towards university degrees following successful completion of a TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute course.

The Institute is reknowned for its educational excellence, and also for the success of its students. The students regularly win national and international competitions, with 17 students winning state medals last year, Luke Montgomery taking out the prestigious title of NSW Vocational Student of the Year, students from the Institute represented Australia in the worldskills competition in Korea and the Institute won 3 national awards for marketing excellence.

The Centre, located in the Marcus Clarke Building of the Institute, is called the TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute, Bakers Delight Daryl Williams Centre of Excellence.

Named after the late Daryl Williams, an inspirational franchisee and Bakers Delight staff member who contributed to the development and growth of Bakers Delight, the Centre will provide relevant training for more than 2000 trainees, franchisees, and apprentices.

According to TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute Director, Marie Persson, the Centre forms an integral part of the future training of Bakers Delight staff.

"The Centre has been fitted out with the same ovens and equipment as a fully commercial Baker's Delight kitchen, so students of the Centre will receive explicit instructions about working with Bakers Delight," Ms Persson said.

"In addition to this, the Centre has been built as a teaching centre, with an internal classroom, baking facility and shop-front for retail bakery training purposes."

Technical specifications of the Centre
2 Moffat Rotel 2 ovens have been installed in the bakery, as are currently used in operating commercial Bakers Delight bakeries.

The total area of the Centre is 190 square metres, comprising a classroom, mock retail area and bakery. The bakery is 132 square metres, and comprises sundry stainless work benches, 7 sinks, Mistubishi electrical air conditioning and extractor fans supplied by FanTech, as per the technical specifications of an operating commercial Bakers Delight kitchen

A 36 square metre classroom has been built off the bakery area, next to a 22 square metre mock retail area. Both these sections will be used by franchisees in other training, such as retail management and retail operations.

The Daryl Williams Centre of Excellence has been designed to mirror an actual Baker's Delight store. Students learning at the center will train on Baker's Delight equipment using Baker's Delight recipes and materials.

To meet the training requirements of the Baking Trades Training Package, students will also be shown and practice non-Baker's Delight products. We feel this give our students are more rounded educational experience.

As demand for places is very high, students will be offered places at the center on a first in best-dressed basis. As each application is sent electronically to us, it is date and time stamped and those who apply early will have a better chance of getting their preferred day and shift.

Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that sending an application will automatically reserve a place in the course.