Why study with Mater Education
Mater Education is committed to building an exceptional healthcare workforce through excellence and expertise in education. Best-practice health and community care is at the heart of everything we do, and it’s through our hands-on and immersive education that we deliver real-world impacts in healthcare.
Find out moreJobTrainer funding is now available for selected courses
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COVID-19 close contact requirements for students
The latest close contact health direction classifies students at Mater facilities as health workers. Students who are close contacts are able to attend Mater facilities providing they:
- Have tested negative for COVID-19
- Do not have COVID-19 symptoms
- Wear a P2 N95 mask
- Have notified their Educator at Mater of their close contact status
- Have breaks outside or on their own
- Use private transport to travel to work
- Return a negative COVID-19 test result before returning to Mater and on days 2, 4 and 6 during the 7-day period after becoming a close contact

Helping you, to help others
Mater Education is proud to offer rare scholarship opportunities for some eligible students from an Indigenous or refugee background, as well as those facing financial hardship.
Upcoming courses
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South Brisbane4 days
CMS Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design & Debriefing
As a Healthcare Simulation Essentials (HSE) course participant, you will learn to identify the jobs, pains, and gains their colleagues and clinical programs find most urgent. You will then learn to work practically and strategically to translate simulation into visible gains for stakeholders.
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Townsville
South Brisbane18 monthsDiploma of Nursing
Gain the skills and knowledge you need to become an Enrolled Nurse (EN) with Mater Education’s Diploma of Nursing program.
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Newstead & South Brisbane4 weeks
Headstart into Healthcare
This course provides learners with basic industry specific skills and knowledge to introduce them into the health workforce and as an entry into a Certificate III course or traineeship within the Health or Community Services sector.


