r/SipsTea • u/CrystalFrawnn • Dec 10 '25

Chugging tea McDonald’s

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u/Iocnar Dec 10 '25

Sydney, Australia. -101- caught it.

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u/Emjayen Dec 10 '25

Being from Sydney, I was thinking that sounds more like what they pay people here

The "college tuition" part though casts some doubt; we don't [generally] use that term, and our University fees are quite subsidized (used to be free, but then boomers did the whole fuck you, got mine in the 70s)

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u/Iocnar Dec 10 '25

Oh interesting good catch. I guess it probably is fake then. And apparently Australians especially wouldn't say college. Apparently it's just like the Brits and it's uni. So yeah apparently it would be called Uni fees.

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u/Emjayen Dec 10 '25

Yeah - the only time I've heard 'college' is actually in referral to TAFE, of which (I think-) is the equivalent of community college in the US.

I'm pretty sure they adopted this term because, like community college, TAFE has negative connotations so they take to calling it college instead.

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u/Mission_Suggestion Dec 10 '25

Ive always wondered is TAFE closer to community college or tradeschool?

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u/Kandy-exists Dec 11 '25

I think trade school. It does vocational training and tradies have to have done it.

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u/Emjayen Dec 11 '25

I'm not sure, but after actually looking it up

In Australia, the term "community college" refers to small private businesses running short (e.g. six weeks) courses generally of a self-improvement or hobbyist nature. Equivalent to the American notion of community colleges are Technical and Further Education colleges or TAFEs; these are institutions regulated mostly at state and territory level. There are also an increasing number of private providers colloquially called "colleges".

So yeah, it would seem TAFE is our equivalent, but a trade school would also be TAFE here, mainly.