ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at issues in navigating through the system to make it work for the student. It outlines course delivery modes and the kinds of support offered. Knowing how the academic system works will ensure that you make effective use of student's time and energy. Universities and colleges are becoming more responsive to training, vocational and commercial factors and offer a broader range of courses and delivery modes than a few years ago. Institutional handbooks provide a useful outline of the courses offered and the topics covered in each course. If the topics are not detailed in the handbook it might be worthwhile contacting the course coordinator to find out more. Undertaking a flexible learning program means that you do not necessarily have to undertake a course according to a rigid, systematic pathway but can choose, within reason, to customise a course to suit student's study situation and study purposes.
