Now this is belated, but you'll cope
. Standard reply from me, random collection of thoughts hopefully having some link back to the topic...
Your careers adviser has a degree of sense. Whatever else you may choose, do your VCE. So many things these days need it or the HSC or all the other equivalents. In fact, NSW are looking to
phase out the School Certificate at the end of year 10 simply because it's of bugger all relevance in today's society.
Now up here, there are these things called VET courses which allow you to study for an AQF certificate and it counts as a subject and you can use one of them in calculating your UAI subject to a couple of conditions. I think your equivalent of the UAI is the TER or the like.
How did you find the work experience? It's interesting that you get paid, because up here it's the complete opposite. Work Experience can't be paid because it stuffs up the Education Dept's insurance - they have what is basically workers
comp insurance to
cover every kid on authorised work experience. The aforementioned VET courses have a mandatory 70 hours work placement that you have to completed within the course, normally as 2 blocks of a week. Most people do 1 in yr11 & 1 in yr12.
I firmly believe that it is who you know and not what you know. But what you know can be important, it's just a shame that what you know and what pieces of paper you hold are definitely not the same thing... I hate to say it but given what I've seen, I wouldn't even take an advanced diploma as any indication you know anything. This would be because I happen to work immediately opposite Juliusmedia and while I'm sure that the certificate lives up to all the stated objectives and CUE03, it's no guarantee that you will actually know what you are doing at the end of it. But I guess it's like everything, it's only worth as much as you are willing to put into it...
Juliusmedia or Julius Events (they keep changing their name, I suspect for accounting reasons) do offer the short courses, Cert 3, sections thereof, Cert 4 is a 6 mnth course and Adv Dip is a full year "full time"meaning what 9:30 til 1:30 5 days a week or something. But comparing that to academic "full time"... There are others who do short courses, NIDA I think, probably the
VCA would as well as other similar places...
As to lighting deign
etc. degrees - I know NIDA do one, I suspect that these other places would as well:
VCA, WAAPA
etc. But they are very high
level courses...I believe Uni of Wollongong does a technical sort of course... head over to the UAC website at
http://www.uac.edu.au for information on all courses at all NSW unis... there should be a
page that links to the respective organisations in the other states...
tomed, remember that QPAC is part of the public sector and that WILL affect the way they do things; it's just a factor if the public sector.
The more normal
address for the Julius group would be
http://www.juliusmedia.com
These Outlook Comms people seem to be telling porkies... The claim of most experienced providing tech. services for the
ent. industry is very questionable, they have been around 18 years. McLean on the other
hand were principal audio contractor for Melbourne 1956...
One thing I forgot, would someone please tell me what this test and tag LICENCE you speak of is... Workcover (NSW) do not issue licences, but do need 12 pages to define a "competent person" - basically doa course, but they don't accredit courses or issue licences...