A NUMBER of local students visited Berri’s TAFE SA campus recently for its Try a Trade Day.
More than 100 year 10 students from Waikerie, Loxton, Glossop, Renmark and Swan Reach High Schools congregated on the campus on Thursday, July 2, to explore their future choices for vocational education and training (VET) courses.
TAFE SA regional manager Sarah Lance said students were exposed to courses across more than 10 industries.
“On show we had courses and careers across 13 different industries: cookery, kitchen operations, hospitality, business, micro-business operations, salon assistant, beauty, agriculture, engineering, automotive, electro-technology, fitness, information technology, and screen and media,” she said.
“These days (for year 10 students) it’s vital to enable the next year’s potential high school VET classes to explore their pathways and options for getting a head start on their future careers, whether its apprentices or traineeships, university pathways through credit transfers or simply gaining TAFE SA national accredited qualification.
“In the Riverland we are all very much looking forward to a usually hectic – but also electric – start to the course and career counselling season and the beginning of enrolments for high school students in the 2021 year.”