The support offered by most tertiary institutions includes assistance with learning skills, counsellors, careers advisers, and advisers on program and unit selection. At Murdoch University, information about learning skills is included as part of the initial and compulsory Foundation Unit and is also available through email, telephone and by personal interview. Counsellors are accessible through similar procedures for assistance about a number of personal or academic matters. Careers advisers will help with career path advice at undergraduate and graduate level. They also assist with the preparation of curriculum vitae's and interview techniques.
Academic advisers provide assistance with choice of programs and units.
Most of these services are available through a wide range of mediums, especially email, telephone, and personal interview. Accessibility to the facilities provided by other tertiary institutions in an area is also an important resource, and one which is frequently overlooked by students, possibly through a general lack of awareness of the availability of these services or through ignorance of the administrative procedures. The assistance able to be provided by local and regional experts is, arguably, the least utilised by students. Local and regional TAFE colleges and high schools have staff with academic qualifications and areas of special interest, but these people are rarely accessed by students. Other local experts may include technologists who may be able to offer assistance in information and computer technology.