Hi guys my name is Travis Harriman and I'm an
Access Project Officer here at Flinders University
and today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about various pathways to
Flinders University. I want to highlight that there's so many
various different pathways to Flinders it's one of the great strengths of our
University and if you do want to come and study
with us at Flinders you might want to consider one of these options
as it could increase your chances of getting in with us. So to get started I'm
going to talk to you about our Enabling Pathways and these are ways that you can
accommodate university based on your personal
circumstances and maybe trying to access uni if it's something
you really want to do. The first one here is our Military
Academic Pathway Program (MAP). Now the MAP is a program for those who
have been in defense or maybe are still in defense and they're looking for a
change or looking to go and get some qualifications so they can maybe move
back into civilian life. It's a four week online intensive
program, which covers a range of different
academic skills to help you bridge that gap as you come and study at
university but we also offer a huge range of support
services and advocacy so that you can feel comfortable when you move across to
university and a big change from the military.
This pathway can allow you into over 29 different courses for next year, some
examples here could be criminology, you may want to do sport, health and
physical activity, social work is a good one or health sciences;
have a look on the website and you can see everything that's available but it's
a fantastic pathway with a short intensive that can get you
into uni with us. The next one we have here is our Elite Athlete
submission now the Elite Athlete submission is a program here that really
allows you to keep your sport at the forefront whilst you're studying at
university and it's amazing because your sport
doesn't have to take the back seat. This allows you to get some advice
get some guidance and have advocacy here at the University and a more flexible
program so that maybe your exams can be sat at
different times and that your classes and your academics can be more
accommodating so that you can pursue sport as well as
studies at Flinders University. There's a whole heap of other things
that are associated with this program. There's scholarships,
there's special access to the gym so it's a really good one to look at if
you're an elite sports player at a national
level or maybe if you're playing at a state
level as well we can accept people too. Next we have our Indigenous Access
Scheme for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders People. Now it involves a written application,
then you need to attend an interview and finally apply via SATAC but it's a
great one if you are considering study and you haven't studied at university
before and it can give you a lot of support
through our Yunggorendi team here with us when you are at Flinders.
So again check this one out on the website if it's right for you. So now I'm
going to talk about some of the more broader Adult Entry pathways that
you can use to get into Flinders. Now here we have the Special Tertiary
Admissions Test and it is a multiple choice test
where you do over two hours 70 different questions
and it really susses out how you think and how you work and it's not your
traditional academics it's more about how you
solve problems and we can take your results in that test
to then give you access into university but it's really important to note
that you must be over 18 by the 1st of February 2021
if you are going to use the STAT test for entry for next year.
Now this is a great one if school didn't go so well for you or if you've been out
in the workforce for a long period of time and you want to come back and you
want to study, sit the STAT test and it can get you
right in. At the moment it's all being sat
online, you can go and do some preparation they have preparation
courses. You have to pay for that test to get in
through this way and there are some free ways coming which I'll talk about as
well. Now here I want to talk about TAFElink.
TAFElink is where we can acknowledge all your hard work previously completing
studies in TAFE and then crediting that across to
university. So we acknowledge that there's a lot of wealth of learning
that you have as an adult through what you've done in the past and we like to
bring that across with you and we can use TAFE as your entry point
with us here at Flinders, depending on your level of
qualifications that sort of varies the amount of courses that you
can get into, the higher your qualification the more courses you can
get into. So for example, if you wanted to do
medical science you'd have to have done an advanced diploma
but we can take you in from a Cert IV and
depending on what you're wanting to study you can go through
competitive entry in this process as well.
To give you an example here somebody who maybe wants to study
our Bachelor of Business or Tourism and Events maybe has done some study at TAFE
previously and they could use their Diploma of
Event Management to get across into our business course or our tourism
course and that will give you guaranteed entry.
We can offer block credit or specific credit
as ways to get in to uni as well and to get credit for what you've already done
because we've already put the hard work in
and we'll transfer that knowledge across and build on it when you're here with us
at Flinders. Now I want to talk about dual offers.
Now some of you may have done some study at TAFE or maybe you're returning to
study and you want to wet your teeth at TAFE for starters or through a VET
pathway and you think you're going to do some stuff that's really hands-on.
We have some brilliant pathways we run in partnership with TAFE where you begin
there and then you come and join us at Flinders afterwards and we
marry them really well so you get a lot of the hands on practical learning at
TAFE and then we build on that with the academics and the core knowledge at the
end so that you can be really well skilled for the workforce.
Now i really want to hone in on the Foundation Studies Program.
I did mention before the STAT test cost a little bit of money
I'm a strong believer in our Foundation Studies Program because this one's
actually free and if you haven't studied for some time,
it's a great way to come to university and build up the foundation building
blocks to be really successful and kick-start your studies and really
plough through an undergraduate degree. It is a three-month course or seven
months depending on where you study it, we offer it all around the state
and if you are an Australian citizen or you have permanent residency you can
apply for this course directly with us through our website, it can allow
you to get into over 14 different courses at uni just by passing.
Now that's guaranteed entry if you do really well and you apply yourself
you have to attend 75% of your classes you can then
go on and you can get into a range of different degrees so things like nursing,
education, health sciences are all available too,
it's just based on how you do in the course. Now one thing to note for
any students out there that may be a little bit younger you can't do the
Foundation Studies course in the same year as your year 12 so it has to be
afterwards but it's a really good one for those who may be looking at
returning to study after a bit of a break.
It's a direct application from our website you don't do it through SATAC
so it means it's totally free, you don't have to pay an application fee,
you'll become a student with us after this and it builds on the
foundation skills to be successful, introducing you to uni, building on your
academic literacy and numeracy and then giving you a bit of a taste of what
we have on offer. Okay now I want to talk about Tertiary
Transfer. Tertiary Transfer is something I actually use myself to move around
within different universities and here at
Flinders and it's just a really important one to know about because you
can move between courses quite easily. Now
with Tertiary Transfer it takes into account your GPA;
some of you may be familiar with ATAR or different scores when you're at school,
when you come to uni you build a score that's called a GPA and that's your
grade point average and that's made up of all the topics that you do
building up this score can allow you to move around in different courses.
Now some people out there may be considering a course like optometry
or physiotherapy and it's quite competitive, it has a high score to get
into in the STAT test and also from foundation
and what you could do is you could come and start a course with us in health
sciences and then use those grades to transfer
across into one of the more competitive courses.
If maybe you've studied elsewhere and you weren't enjoying what you're
studying or you're looking for a change this is a great way that you can move
across and study what you're really passionate about with us here at
Flinders as well. The grades that you achieve through your
previous studies will open up more doors so as long as
you're applying yourself there's plenty of options here.
Another way that you can move around within university is to use our pathway
courses. Now if you're not sure what you want to
do but maybe for example you really wanted to be a psychologist,
you could pathway through our Bachelor of Arts Psychological Science
then go into Psych Science and then into Honours and
every time you make that shift hopefully you're going to get some credit between
courses and this is the great thing about these pathway courses because they
give you direct credit into the course that you really want to
go into and it allows you to get that footstep
in where maybe you didn't quite meet the mark for competitive entry.
A great example here, education, you do that first you're in the pathway course
and then you move across into second year with all the other education
students. Nobody has to know that you went through
the pathway course, it's just your slow sort of easy way getting into the course
where you're not trying to compete so hard you're not putting your pressure on
yourself to get that really high score, you're working your way in, it's a great
way to start. That's all I have for you today guys, please follow up with us
we'd love to talk to you and we can give a lot more specific information about
these courses and we can't wait to see you soon