Keeping students engaged at school can be a challenge.
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The YES program, run through TAFE NSW, aims to re-engage students who may be at risk of leaving school early.
Several students from Goulburn High School recently began this four-week program, studying beauty.
Goulburn High's Student Support Officer Erin Acton said the program provided educational pathways and individual learning plans for the students involved.
She said one of the main drawcards of the program is that students would undertake hands on learning.
"[It aims] to capture that engagement with students and show them what possibilities are out there and why education is so important in whatever career path they choose," she said.
The program is for students in Years 9 and 10 where they participate in short vocational courses that provide career guidance and employability, language, literacy and numeracy skills in a vocational context.
These students also receive mentoring support and an individual learning plans to help them reach their goals.
It aims to engage students by exposing them to vocational options and to make them more aware and motivated to take up pathways into further education or work.
TAFE NSW research has shown the program was able to:
- re-engage students in formal schooling and improve Year 12 retention.
- increase access and awareness of further education or training options post school
- improve motivation and engagement with potential post school and employment pathways
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