Army's Afghan trade school to close

AUSTRALIA'S long-running trade training school in Afghanistan, which has tried to steer youth away from joining the Taliban insurgency, has wound up.

The closure of the school, which taught 900 teenagers basic construction skills over the past seven years, comes as the Australian Defence Force's mission in the war-torn country winds down.

The school, within the main Australian base at Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan, closed last month and trade training school supervisor Kelvin Baulch hoped it had opened new doors for its students.

"That's hopefully the way of the future," Mr Baulch told AAP on Thursday.

"There's better things in life than putting bombs in the road."

In each 124-day course, students learned basic joinery and carpentry, concreting and block laying, painting and tiling and plumbing.

Graduates received a set of basic tools and could earn $20 a day - more than the $5 a day paid for unskilled labour on a building site.

The school, operated by military engineers, was opened by the Australian Reconstruction Task Force in 2006.

Its tools and equipment are being taken to a new facility in Tarin Kowt being built for the Afghan Ministry of Education.

The Australian-led Artillery Training and Advisory Team - which set up the Afghan National Army School of Artillery in Kabul - has also finished up after training more than 2300 gunners and instructors.

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