Deadline: 4-Nov-22
Applications are now open for Vocational Education and Training (VET) to secondary school students.
VET enables students to gain qualifications for all types of employment, and specific skills to help them in the workplace.
Undertaking VET while at school allows students to mix general and vocational education and to make a start on training for a career before they leave school.
VET studies allow secondary students to gain practical skills in a specific industry while contributing towards the completion of their senior secondary certificates, either the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL).
Students can also study VET through school-based apprenticeships or traineeships (SBATs) or part-time apprenticeships and traineeships. In government schools, all SBATs will be supported by the Head Start program from 2023.
Model Features
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The revised VET funding model features:
- funding bands for VDSS that more closely reflect the market-based price (Adult VET Skills First price plus average fee subsidy) to support VET provision. Funding will be allocated pro-rata for enrolments up to 180 hours per VET certificate per year
- funding bands for VET materials costs allocated per VET certificate enrolment per year
- recognition of different core student resource package (SRP) funding rates for mainstream and specialist schools
- a small-scale adjustment to offset VDSS costs for schools with low total enrolment numbers.
Eligibility Criteria
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A VET program will be eligible for funding where:
- the program is provided to students undertaking certificates at level II to IV as part of their senior secondary certificate – materials fees for SBATs are claimable as long as the SBAT is part of the senior secondary certificate; and
- the costs incurred are for items that are necessarily consumed or transformed by students as part of training or assessment.
- Not all VET programs are eligible for VET materials funding. Programs undertaken outside of the school curriculum and traineeships undertaken by students outside of school such as in a part-time employment arrangement, and Certificates in General Education or at Diploma level are all excluded.
- Where parents choose to purchase additional or alternate items, from those provided or recommended by the school and/or provider, they may do so at their own expense. Items to be retained by the student will be required to be purchased independently by the student/parents.
For more information, visit VET.
For more information, visit https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/vocational-education-and-training-vet-delivered-secondary-students/policy