Congrats to Greg!!!

Yesterday we received confirmation that Greg has been accepted into the local campus of the Australian Technical College.

For those who haven't heard of this, it's a "school based apprenticeship" program - that helps kids get into apprenticeships as well as completing some of the required trade certificates.  They do this over year 11 and 12, and while they're out working - they get paid.

Greg's all excited - and his friend Parkah has also been accepted - so he'll at least be going there as a new student - with a friend.

It works differently to the schooling system in that they no longer get "school holidays" - he'll get 4 weeks off a year - which I imagine will be over the Christmas Break (this is to get them used to the reality of the fact that in the work force - there is only 4 weeks leave per year) - they also don't have all the lunches that you get in the school environment - they have morning tea and a lunch break and no school oval to go and play football.

They go to school for two weeks - and then they go out and work for two weeks with an employer (either as a "try-a-trade" or in an actual apprenticeship (when someone employs them) - only once they're employed do they get paid though - but it gives them a chance to try different trades to make sure they go into one that they actually want to stick with.