Ashlee Jensen – Queensland

Ashlee joined the SEE Programme at TAFE Queensland’s Logan Campus as an adult learner who wanted to improve her literacy and numeracy standards.

Ashlee had to overcome obstacles in her younger life that made it very difficult for her to achieve a productive school education. However, she got to a point in her life where she realised that she had to turn her life around – and she now credits adult education with helping her do that.

Her tutors put it down to her incredible self-determination and hard work, saying it has been a pleasure to see her grow and be able to realise her educational and personal potential.

Ashlee has extended herself daily during her course, looking for strategies to absorb the processes and details necessary to succeed. She approaches every new task with fresh energy, arriving early at campus and often leaving later to allow herself the time needed to absorb the lessons.

She is not too proud to ask for repeat lessons or to self-critique and do even better on her next attempts. She has also become a very effective mentor and support to the large percentage of adult migrant students in her cohort.

Ashlee is completing her SEE journey at the end of this year but now wants to continue studying to become a Youth Support Worker. She has seen what education and mentoring have done for her and wishes that she had found such an environment earlier in life.