School, tafe and university links, in pursuit of a seamless pathway

The Hunter Institute of Technology is the largest supplier of workforce education and training in the Hunter Region of NSW, and one of the largest NSW TAFE Institutes. One of the Institute’s 16 campuses, the Central Coast Campus, is a joint venture of the University of Newcastle, The Hunter Institute of Technology, and the Central Coast Community College. In a number of other locations joint school and TAFE educational precincts are in various stages of development. The Institute, in partnership with local schools and the University of Newcastle, has an established goal of developing educational pathways, which maximize student articulation and credit transfer. The movement from traditional articulation arrangements to those incorporating the concept of a seamless pathway represents a challenge for these partners