Jaime Hammond was four months pregnant with her first child when she signed up to study for a diploma of business from the Evocca College.
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The 30-year-old faced more challenges than most, trying to combine her education with the demands of being an expectant mum and then a new mum to son Levi.
With hard work and support, Jaime was successful in both areas of her life.
Levi is now a healthy baby aged eight months old and Jaime is one of 29 students who are graduating with business-related diplomas from the Evocca College in Wollongong on Monday.
Jaime, who has attained a diploma of business, said it was the one-on-one tutoring by educators at Evocca College that provided her with the personal and learning support she needed.
"With all the things that were going on in my life, it was good because it was flexible and let me do the course, do work and be pregnant, and have a baby in the future as well," she said.
"It was quite a juggling act and I wouldn't have been able to do it without the help of the tutors.
"They were really flexible and could motivate you in the little time you had in your life."
Jaime said she was supported by two other college students, who were also parents, and the three of them would share regular child-minding duties.
Natalie Smith, 23, is also graduating on Monday, from the Gladstone Avenue college, with a diploma in business and a diploma in management.
She enrolled at the Evocca College in Wollongong after completing marketing studies at university.
"My overall dream is to own my own marketing, social media, content-writing consulting company so that's going to take not only the marketing skills but also the management and the business skills to be able to work myself and run my own business," she said.
"Now I will be able to do the lot myself rather than having someone come in to help me."
Evocca College Wollongong branch manager Cathy James said attaining the diploma would give young adults the underpinning knowledge required to run a business.
"They have learnt the skills to work in a business and one day get to the point where they can perhaps own their own business," she said. "It's not just the business skills they learn here. It's the life skills."