00:02So, Taz, I was looking through your style.
00:05Beaming into a live lesson alongside a teacher and students hundreds of kilometres away.
00:10At the start, I was a bit hesitant, especially because I wasn't used to such technology-based learning.
00:16But once I adjusted, I found it really easy.
00:19With dreams of studying medicine, Bega student Tasman enrolled in a chemistry course at the state's virtual college
00:26after learning her school couldn't offer it due to a lack of students.
00:30I wouldn't have really had another option. I would have just had to pick another subject.
00:34The college has been restricted to regional and remote students, soon opening to the rest of the state's public high
00:40schools.
00:41We do our best to offer a broad curriculum of subject choice for students,
00:45but there are times when the student choice comes in as a very low number and the school can't afford
00:52to offer that subject.
00:53Schools across the state have long struggled to find specialist teachers for some senior subjects.
00:58The New South Wales government says the expansion of the college will give students more choice,
01:03regardless of their postcode or the size of their school.
01:06Matai wants to pursue aeronautical engineering and now won't have to do extracurricular courses or leave his school.
01:12It's online, but face-to-face online. You're not speaking to an AI.
01:16You're not just given work and told to do it.
01:19And I feel like it'll be much easier for me to learn, being supported.
01:22This will be a really discreet need and we'll monitor it and see from next year what the need and
01:29what the demand will be.
01:30The expansion comes into effect next year.
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