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In December when you receive your examination results, you will be making important and exciting decisions about your future career pathways. Assistance with these decisions is available if you need it. The Careers Advisory Service offers friendly professional advice during the summer holidays. This free service is available by phone or email. From Wednesday 17 December 2008 to Friday 9 January 2009, careers advisers will be available on 1300 300 687 (or www.cas.det.nsw.edu.au) to answer your enquiries.

TAFE NSW


	TAFE NSW has over 1200 courses available. For young people leaving school there are courses to improve the following: Literacy and numeracy skills. English language skills. Academic courses to help you to improve your school subject results. Short courses to give you basic training for specific jobs to help you into work. Vocational courses at all levels up to Advanced Diplomas and Graduate Diplomas. To visit the TAFE NSW website CLICK HERE. TAFE NSW is split into 10 institutes, each with their own website: Hunter Institute: www.hunter.tafensw.edu.au/. Illawarra Institute: www.illawarra.tafensw.edu.au/. New England Institute: www.newengland.tafensw.edu.au/. North Coast Institute: www.nci.tafensw.edu.au/. Northern Sydney Institute: www.tafestudy.info/. Riverina Institute: www.rit.tafensw.edu.au/. South Western Sydney Institute: www.swsi.tafensw.edu.au/. Sydney Institute: www.sit.nsw.edu.au/. Western Institute: www.wit.tafensw.edu.au/. Western Sydney Institute & OTEN: wsi.tafensw.edu.au/. TAFE NSW - Popular Courses Find out how to apply for TAFE's popular courses at http://www.tafensw.edu.au/schooltotafe/gettingin/popularcourses.htm. As part of the application process, you may also be required to participate in selection activities, such as: attending an information session completing a test showing samples of your work attending an interview or audition. Check this out with the campus offering your course before lodging your application. Credit Transfer & Articulation Many students complete a course at TAFE before going on to do university studies, and many students with university degrees then go on to do TAFE studies. If their qualifications already cover part of their new course they do not need to repeat this work. A typical example would be someone with a TAFE Diploma only having to do two years of a three year degree. This arrangement has been formalised and full details can be found here. In addition to these local credit transfer arrangements between the TAFE and university sectors, the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) has developed national credit transfer arrangements for students moving from TAFE to a related undergraduate course at university. Details can be found here. New multimedia tool for careers advisers out now *Love your future- an* *interactive presentation* was developed in response to feedback from Careers Advisers on the Love Your Future booklet launched in 2006 and aimed at Years 9 and 10. Careers Advisers told us that they found the book a useful tool and would also like a tool to present information to Year 11 and 12 students, comparable to the information provided by universities. This planted the seed that led to the development of **Love your future - an interactive presentation. Love your future- an interactive presentation is available online on the TAFE NSW website - www.tafensw.edu.au/careersadvisers. It can be used as an online presentation and can also be downloaded for later use. In addition, a promotional CD copy of the presentation has been sent to schools throughout NSW. For more information on the presentation contact Yolanda Beatson - yolanda.beatson@det.nsw.edu.au. \| Jobs \| Universities \| TAFE** \| Private Colleges \| \| Return Home \| Main Home \| What's New \| Events Calendar \| Post School \| Course Search \| Explore Careers \| Careers Advice \| Careers Advisers \| Links \| Contact Us \|