Flexastudy

A great number of potential students is lost to the state education system each year. These are the students who for social, economic, geographical reasons are unable to attend a course of study at a college or polytechnic. The courses at most state educational institutions are based on groups of 12 or more people coming forward at the same time requiring the same course at the same level in the correct geographical area. This has tended to create a pattern of course distribution which tends to polarise courses in the large centres of population. The system has become rigid and inflexible and institution‐orientated rather than student orientated. If the student is unable to attend the institution offering the course he requires, at the time the institution makes the course available and for the period of time the institution requires him to attend, then he is lost to the state system. His only recourse is to correspondence course or the private sector.