My frustration with Tafe
May 2, 2019 21:34:54 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on May 2, 2019 21:34:54 GMT 10
I know most of us on here don't attend Tafe, but after the lesson I had earlier this evening, I really feel like venting over my frustration with the entire Tafe curriculum. I'm three months into my Certificate III Horticulture course. I personally have to go to Tafe twice a week; 3 hours on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. You'd think the number of hours we have to go to Tafe each week would mean that we would have ample time to do class work, but we do very little in class at all.
The lessons are incredibly slow-paced. Most lessons require us to sit in a classroom and listen to powerpoint presentations read out by our teacher. We're never given actual "class" work. Besides practical tasks (which are rare), the only type of work we ever do is answer some questions out of assignment booklets we are handed, which is ridiculous, because it pretty much defeats the purpose of us getting the assignments. Case in point, tonight we spent the entire 3 hours going over an assignment which we had already completed in class a couple of weeks ago.
This is incredibly frustrating for someone like myself who has never had any experience in horticulture and wants to learn as much as possible. I feel as though i'm getting very little out of this course, as we repeatedly go over the same points and we rarely have to write anything down in class. Certificate III is supposed to be the "beginner's course", which makes this entire scenario all the whole worse. I paid $2500 for this shit.
There's so many faults with the Tafe education system in NSW and they're only going to get worse as the Liberal Government wants to make further cuts to tertiary funding. I can't comment on what the Tafe Online service is like, as I personally haven't done it myself, but the Tafe campuses and courses are a mess. I know this isn't something exclusive to just my Horticulture course either, as I have a close friend who is doing a Sports Science course and he recently said to me that most of the time they just have to watch powerpoint presentations as well.
The lessons are incredibly slow-paced. Most lessons require us to sit in a classroom and listen to powerpoint presentations read out by our teacher. We're never given actual "class" work. Besides practical tasks (which are rare), the only type of work we ever do is answer some questions out of assignment booklets we are handed, which is ridiculous, because it pretty much defeats the purpose of us getting the assignments. Case in point, tonight we spent the entire 3 hours going over an assignment which we had already completed in class a couple of weeks ago.
This is incredibly frustrating for someone like myself who has never had any experience in horticulture and wants to learn as much as possible. I feel as though i'm getting very little out of this course, as we repeatedly go over the same points and we rarely have to write anything down in class. Certificate III is supposed to be the "beginner's course", which makes this entire scenario all the whole worse. I paid $2500 for this shit.
There's so many faults with the Tafe education system in NSW and they're only going to get worse as the Liberal Government wants to make further cuts to tertiary funding. I can't comment on what the Tafe Online service is like, as I personally haven't done it myself, but the Tafe campuses and courses are a mess. I know this isn't something exclusive to just my Horticulture course either, as I have a close friend who is doing a Sports Science course and he recently said to me that most of the time they just have to watch powerpoint presentations as well.
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