Interestingly many VET providers operate on the principles of an adult learning environment. The TAFE New South Wales website provides a useful example of how this environment is understood by VET institutions. On this website an adult learning environment is characterised as one that allows freedom of choice, and it is contrasted with the more “structured environment” that “children require”. There is a statement that students will be judged on “output rather than attendance”. The website includes a discussion of the obligations and expectations of students that accompany these freedoms, including treating staff with respect, allowing other students to study without disturbance and applying “adult considerations to the level of effort” put into study (TAFE New South Wales,2012)