The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning will be phased out as schools adopt a new stream that teachers hope will end the stigma about vocational subjects.
Students entering year 11 this year will be the first to study a reformed VCE with a greater emphasis on vocational learning.
The new certificate, which is being introduced in schools at a cost of $120 million, was created in response to a review that found the vocational education and training model delivered in Victorian schools was failing to keep up with changing employment trends.spoke with several secondary school principals, all of whom expressed enthusiasm for the senior certificate reforms.
“If this is successful, we will hopefully see some of those kids [who] have previously chosen not to do VCAL because of the perception choose to do vocational major subjects, perhaps with some traditional VCE subjects as well, and that perception barrier will break down over time,” he said. “We’re a very proud local school, we’ve got kids who started together in prep, and they were having to leave at year 10,” Millard said.Three units in literacy or VCE EnglishTwo personal development skills unitsThe school is desperate to make a success of the new certificate, Millard said, so much so that her staff spent much of last year developing a new vocational curriculum that would engage students and give them more options to follow their passions.
Year 12 student Sienna Gladstone was part of a group of students who advocated for reforms to VCE to make it easier to study vocational subjects.
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