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The VCAL gives you practical work related experience as well as Literacy and Numeracy skills and the opportunity to build personal skills that are important for life and work. And like the VCE, it is a recognised qualification. The VCE is widely used by students as a pathway to further studies at university or TAFE. Students who choose to do the VCAL are more likely to be interested in going on to training at TAFE, doing an apprenticeship, or getting a job after completing school. However if you start your VCAL and then decide the VCE is the right option for you after all, it won’t be too late to change your mind. The VCAL program at Swinburne SSC is designed to sit alongside the VCE to give students the opportunity to continue with their VCE after completing their VCAL. Subjects taken in three of the four VCAL Strands are credited as both VCAL and VCE units, so students can gain up to 8 units towards their VCE from Units 1 & 2, which would enable them to proceed to year 12.
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The VCAL is made up of four Strands: • Literacy and Numeracy Skills Students’ timetables are structured to organise their study and work around these four Strands. This allows them ample time to complete the Personal Development Skills Strand, which involves projects determined by the student around their own areas of interest and related to understanding community and themselves. Students choose a VET course for the Industry Specific Skills Strand, which will also give them a VET Certificate in a vocational course of interest to them. Swinburne SSC is part of the Inner Melbourne VET Cluster. There are a wide variety of VET courses available to us that are held at Swinburne SSC and other campuses in the cluster. Details for all of these courses can be found in the VET handbook. |
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Numeracy Skills (Foundation Maths Units 1 & 2) Literacy Skills (Foundation English Units 1 & 2) Work Related Skills (Industry & Enterprise Units 1 & 2) |
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Numeracy Skills (Foundation Maths Units 1 & 2) Literacy Skills (Foundation English Units 1 & 2) Work Related Skills (Industry & Enterprise Units 1 & 2) |
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