at Fairholme
Pathway Programs offer a dynamic exploration of industry-based experiences and learning.
Direct entrance pathways to tertiary and post-secondary study, complement and enhance our students’ opportunities, as well as offer an employment advantage.
All girls from Year 10 to Year 12 at Â鶹ÊÓƵCollege participate in Pathways Programs. We believe that by beginning a Pathway Program earlier in the girls’ schooling, it ensures they are making informed career and subject choices, having ‘tasted’ or experienced an area of interest outside of traditional subject offerings.
Our students get the opportunity to explore areas of career interest earlier in their schooling, ensuring they are equipped to make informed subject choices.
Gaining a nationally-recognised qualification gives our girls an edge when entering the workforce and can provide pathways into tertiary study.
Our Pathway Programs help students to gain valuable workplace experience and improve their life skill sets prior to leaving school.
Certificate III and above level qualifications can contribute directly to ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) calculation.
The success and subsequent longevity of these programs, is evident when SET Planning with our girls throughout Years 10, 11 and 12. Exposure to study and practical placement in an area of career interest at this early stage, assists with our girls’ decision-making processes, which enables them to make more relevant and informed subject choices.
Another bonus to our Pathway Programs, under the new ATAR system, is that a Certificate III and above level qualification can contribute directly to ATAR calculation. This gives many of our girls peace of mind as they head into their Senior year with a guaranteed ATAR result.
Gaining a nationally-recognised qualification can provide a pathway into tertiary study and gives our girls an edge when entering the workforce. We see our girls experience success in their ATAR subjects, tertiary study and employment, all due to this program.
The program can assist with:
Providing the most relevant and diverse practical, hands-on hospital, nursing, allied health and medical placement opportunity for our girls.
Health Services is one of our long-standing, advanced Pathway Programs. The program is run from our Â鶹ÊÓƵHealth Hub — a 3-bed simulated hospital ward with Allied Health station, housed on-campus.
The creation of the Â鶹ÊÓƵCollege Health Hub ensures our Health, Allied Health and Medical students can train in Toowoomba, as well as Brisbane, while still accessing the high-quality training opportunity Mater Education delivers out of the Mater Hospital, Brisbane.
It has also allowed fruitful partnerships with our local hospitals, St. Vincent’s and St. Andrew’s, and other dynamic health organisations, like Lifeflight, Southern Queensland Rural Health (SQRH) and RMEA/QRME.
Some of the popular Pathway Programs studied at Â鶹ÊÓƵCollege include: