School Based New Apprenticeships in VCE/VCAL VCAA VET Unit Lisa Burgess June 2006

1998–2001  13 VCAA/ITB approved industry areas: Agriculture, Automotive, Business, Community Services, Food Processing (Wine), Food Processing (General Foods), Engineering, Horticulture, Hospitality, IT, Retail, Seafood, Sport & Recreation

Principles of approval for VCE recognition  Industry support and promotion  Identified training needs  Industrial arrangements in place  Appropriate nationally recognised qualification available at suitable AQF level  To be available also through VCE VET pathway

Program development  Identification of OH&S issues  Identification of inappropriate sectors and inappropriate units of competence  Determination of licensing and/or regulatory requirements  Arrangements for recognition in the VCE  Sample programs

VCE SBNA qualifications unitised  School Based New Apprenticeships with VCE VET units Credit arrangements that exist for corresponding certificate in VCE VET program apply 13 industry areas that are formally promoted through central management Access to scored assessment as for VCE VET for specific programs

Growth in participation rates

From 2002 New flexible arrangements  Block Credit Recognition formula used many more SBNA opportunities outside the 13 profiled industry areas eligible for credit towards VCE  VCAL pilot 2002 full implementation 2003

….to 2005  approx 4500 enrolments 72% in Retail & Hosp (CII &III) 4% in Engineering 6% in Automotive 6% in Ag & Hort

Contribution to satisfactory completion of the VCE  Of the minimum 16 units (including at least 3 units of English) required for satisfactory completion, up to 13 may come from VET (includes VCE VET, SBNAs and block credit)  Student must have three unit 3-4 sequences other than English, all of which may come from VET, notwithstanding duplication  Additional VCE VET units will appear on the student’s Statement of Results, as with VCE units over and above the minimum 16

ENTER contribution VTAC :  Where SBNA training program provides a Unit 3–4 sequence  one ENTER increment  increment is 10% of the average of scaled scores of primary four  Study Score for the SBNA (where available/optional) may be one of the primary four

VCE Block Credit Recognition Student must be enrolled in the VCE or have been enrolled in the VCE/VCAL in previous two years Formula applied to determine credit based on hours of training completed and AQF level of units of competence Nationally recognised VET at Certificate II and above that is not available through the suite of VCE VET and corresponding SBNA programs Judgments on duplication VCE and VCAL Administrative Handbook 2006 (p.46–47)

VCAL  Credit towards Industry Specific Skills and Work Related Skills strands Structure of VCAL encourages SBNA VET credit is carried with the student should she/he transfer into VCE or vice versa

School Based New Apprenticeships  DEST National Guidelines  Under Victorian VET Act (1990) student must be 15 years or over  200 days duration employment/training  NAC rep. must meet in person with employer and apprentice  OH&S training early in the training program  RTOs responsible for forwarding results to schools

VASS Enrolment and results  Home school is responsible for all data entry for VET  Schools enrol students in individual units of competence  Training Plan must be accurate  If Training Plan changes school needs to be informed  RTO has to be selected– mandatory information  School will need results by mid November (very important for Year 12 students)

VCAA Publications  A Guide to School Based New Apprenticeships for Victorian Secondary Students (pub. Nov 2003)  VCAA Bulletin No.34 February 2006 Supplement 1 (both publications are available from

Contact details - VCAA  VET Unit –  VCAL Team –

Useful websites  Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority  Department of Education, Employment & Training - Vocational Education in Schools (state)  Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre  National Training Information Service  Department of Education, Science and Training (C’wealth)  Office of Training and Tertiary Education  Victorian Learning and Employment Skills Commission  New Apprenticeships