Thursday, 16 October 2008

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. 

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