It is still not enough. 3 students right through to the end of year 12. That's a big step up from today's 70 or so per cent, and business studies will be doing much of the grunt work. Dean Ashenden and Sandra Milligan are authors of The Age Good Schools Guide. To many students, the attraction of VCE business studies is that they will be on their way to a job.
Tertiary courses are just as numerous and just as various.
Almost every university, TAFE campus and private tertiary college has business courses. Hundreds of these are available by distance education or on the Internet. As well, many companies and government departments run in-house programs for their employees. In short, the problem is not finding a business course or getting into it, but finding the right one. Broadly speaking, there are three ways to go.