An apprentice who lives more than 60odd Km from home gets living away from home allowance and circa 03 was around $80 per week tax free.
Others living more than 65Km from TAFE also get traveling allowance too.
From a class of 15 we had 4 End up wanting jobs at the end of there time.
Expect to see at least half of that 50 to apply or less wanting job with the current state of engineering.