Subj : Re: New to this
To   : StormTrooper
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 23 2025 01:11 am

On 22 Apr 2025 at 01:52a, StormTrooper pondered and said...
 
 St>  Ac> Does "TAFE" occur well before the child becomes an adult (if so, then
 St>  Ac> that is a good thing)? Or is this something they have to go do after
 St>  Ac> they finish normal school? If that's the case, that was a terrible id
 St> 
 St> TAFE used to be aimed pretty squarely at adults... its an odd
 St> insitution, you can do almost any kind of course, at almost any level.. 
 St> Everything from essentially hobby level stuff, through uni entry courses.
 St> 
 St> I s'pose its pretty much always covered trades, but in the days of my
 St> youth that was kinda hidden, the push was always more education.  In
 St> theory as soon as you're of age to leave/drop off out highschool you
 St> could hit the TAFE circuit...
 St> 

It's a shame it declined, as it was a valid, and useful pathway for many after they left school.  There was this thought that TAFE was for people who couldn't make it into University, but in retrospect that was a bad opinion to have.

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