superiority
TAFE can provide thousands of vocational and non-vocational courses every year, most of which are designed according to the needs of social, economic and commercial life development and are very practical. TAFE courses are designed not only by educational decision-making units, but also by industrial and commercial circles, so its courses can provide students with the knowledge and skills they have learned in future employment. For students from three schools in China, on the basis of their original majors, choose a TAFE course related to them. After completing the course, they can get a TAFE diploma and show their talents directly in every industry. This is a big advantage of TAFE.
Secondly, TAFE adopts small class system, students can get more help from teachers, and the school facilities are quite perfect and modern. The educational system of TAFE is generally one to two years, and more attention is paid to group learning and discussion in teaching. Most teachers are experienced professionals, with an average of 15 to 30 students per class. The teaching content is the combination of practical work and classroom teaching, and some courses are taught in universities. For students from three universities with relatively weak foundations, it is more reasonable to choose TAFE than to go to university directly. Moreover, most TAFE courses allow students to continue to pursue university courses after graduation, and the subjects they have studied can even be counted as undergraduate courses for one year or more. This provides a two-way choice for students from three schools in China.
TAFE diplomas in Australia are widely recognized by various industries, employers and universities. For example, two international students, one graduated from a university and the other from TAFE College, are more inclined to the latter in the face of the same position, because TAFE graduates receive vocational education that applies what they have learned, while the advantage of undergraduate courses lies in theory, which requires a certain amount of training to adapt to work. If students want to continue their studies after working for a period of time, the advantages of TAFE course will be further reflected. They can go to the corresponding TAFE university college, continue to complete the course for one and a half to two years, and get an undergraduate degree. Of course, the admission condition is that you must obtain an advanced diploma in TAFE course.
As far as the admission requirements of TAFE are concerned, domestic graduates from technical secondary schools, technical schools and vocational schools can directly enter TAFE courses as long as the IELTS total score is 5.5. If your English score is not satisfactory, you can still study English in TAFE's language center and then study mainstream courses. IELTS requires a total score of 6.0 to apply for an Australian undergraduate course.
Combined with the educational characteristics and system in China, students who failed in the college entrance examination and working people who want to continue their studies for several years can choose TAFE. Compared with other educational levels in Australia, TAFE with wide distribution, flexible mechanism, practical diversity and convenient employment will become a popular new choice in the future study abroad trend in Australia.
Educational method
TAFE schools have flexible requirements for admission, adopt a credit system in the academic system, and issue corresponding graduation certificates, qualification certificates or diplomas according to the accumulated credits; Short-term training will issue a learning certificate. The poor level is just like middle schools, junior colleges and undergraduate courses in China. TAFE generally does not award degrees. To get a degree, you must enter a college of higher education or a comprehensive university for further study. The credit system allows intermittent learning, which means that adults have more choices when dealing with the family burden and the contradiction between work and study. Under this academic system, the duration of courses varies from 12 weeks, 24 weeks to one year and two years.
This unified certificate system and modular curriculum content structure make vocational education connected with general education and higher education; Linking pre-service education with post-service education embodies the idea of lifelong education. In the stage of ordinary senior high school education, students can freely choose the vocational education courses required by the first-class certificate to the fourth-class certificate; After graduating from high school and entering TAFE College, the vocational education course credits obtained in the high school education stage are recognized, that is, you can learn the subsequent course modules directly without having to start from scratch. After graduating from TAFE College, students can also enter the university, and all (if the major of the university is practical) or part (if the major of the university is theoretical) of the courses they have studied in TAFE College are recognized. This creates conditions for TAFE university graduates to continue their studies and obtain university degrees.
TAFE's flexible educational rules are like a Rubik's cube, which can correspond to a road from another angle, so that foreign students can make progress and retreat and make choices when they move from one learning stage to another. You can choose to go to college, or you can choose to work, and you can continue to study in college after work. Moreover, the tuition fee of TAFE school is only 2/3 of the undergraduate tuition fee, which is very economical.