To Central or To Uni?

The age old question of should I go to Central (TAFE) or University, and which is better looking on the resume. At the moment generally kids coming out of high school tend to try and go into University, due to buying into the common misconception of Central or TAFE is where the dumb people go. In all honesty Central being a place for dumb people is the furthest from the truth you can get.

Granted, University has its own culture, massive campuses, and varied range of courses available but what is does lack are practical examples of the work that you are studying, being carried out. It’s one thing to sit and study for four years about a certain subject and then be expected to do these certain tasks in a real world scenario. At Central you work as you learn, you actively participate in many actually physical examples of your chosen field of study, not only is it an invaluable experience but gives you a sense of accomplishment, and sense of "Hey, I can do that".

If you look at all the available work positions across many different fields, they all have one thing in common and that is they want people with experience, they want people to already know what they’re supposed to be doing, they want them to hit the ground running. With a University degree you just don’t have that real world experience, opposed to the people that went to Central. If it came down to one with a university degree but no experience, and one with a Central diploma but with sufficient experience I'd have to say 70% times they would take the Central student.

In short a University degree in whatever field is great but it just can't compare to real world experience.