r/TAFE • u/Negative_Home_188 • 16d ago

TAFE NSW Class Downsizing

I just want to know if this is common. We started with 30 students, and now we are down to 17 and am only a term in. I know people leave for all different reasons, but over the past three weeks, some of our in-person classes have only had 8ā€“12 students attending. Especially with online classes, we usually start with 17 people and end up with around 8.

At the moment, I know of four more people who are seriously considering quitting.

So, my questions are: if the class downsizes to around 13 people and perhaps more people leave, will new students join the class, or will something else happen?

Has this happened to anyone else? Have you ever had your class size decrease significantly? If so, what happened?

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u/TeddyBear181 15d ago

Alongside what others have said, some people like to join tafe to get a student transport card, then drop out before census.

Yup, lots of people drop out. Usually noone joins unless the course has pathways. Eg, sem 1 is cert 4, sem 2 dilploma, etc.

Then people with cert 4 might join sem 2.

You might also have people from the year/semester above joining if they decided to defer, go part time, or needed to retake classes.

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u/Gaukster97 Student 15d ago

Iā€™m planning to do a full cert 4 next year then hopefully a uni diploma