It was very much a who you know opening.
His first preference was something about heavy prefab and his second one is something about fitting and machining. All I know is whenever I mention either of those things to anyone most of them magically know people who know people and are already offering to take him on when he starts so whatever he's getting into is apparently needed.
Was funny though, he was looking up what he needed to get a tertiary smartrider (which he has to get through TAFE as I suspected) and there was a dropdown to select what institute he was at and he was looking at the list of unis saying all these places he could go to and he was going to TAFE. Told him he was smart enough to get into any of the unis if he really wanted to but he said he wasn't sure if it was worth the effort as it seems the pieces of paper don't quite hold the same prestige they once did.