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VCAL.movThe Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) is a practical work related certificate which provides pathways into training, apprenticeships and work. Like the VCE it is a recognised and accredited senior school qualification.
If you choose to do the VCAL, you will gain practical experience and employability skills, as well as the skills you will need to go on to further training in the workplace or at TAFE. These skills include reading, writing and maths skills as well as the personal skills that are important for life and work. While a VET unit is optional in the VCE, it is compulsory in a VCAL program.
If you start VCAL and decide that you need a VCE instead, you can transfer between the two certificates. Any VCE studies successfully completed as part of the VCAL program will count towards the VCE. In fact, it is possible to complete Year 12 with both VCE and VCAL.
A certificate and Statement of Results are issued to students who successfully complete their VCAL.
CONTACT: Mark Verberne
VCAL Hands On Option BookletThe VCAL’s flexibility enables students to undertake a study program that suits their interests and learning needs. There are four compulsory strands:
Literacy and Numeracy Skills
Your VCAL program must include literacy and numeracy subjects. These can be selected from VCAL literacy skills and VCAL numeracy skills units and/or VCE English and Mathematics units
Industry Specific Skills
Your VCAL program must include industry specific units from Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs. The range of VET options is extensive and includes automotive, engineering, building and construction, hospitality and retail, multimedia, IT, agriculture, horticulture, and hair and beauty.
Work Related Skills
Work Related Skills covers the following:
The integrating of complex work related skills with prior knowledge and experiences about work.
Enhancing skills through work related activities.
Development of critical thinking skills that apply to problem solving situations in the work context.
The application of increasingly complex transferable skills to work related contexts.
In order to develop employability skills, students are required to go out each Friday on a structured Work Placement.
Personal Development Skills
The purpose of this area is to focus on the development of organisation and planning skills, knowledge, practical skills, problem solving and interpersonal skills through participation in experiences of a practical nature. In the Foundation units the students learn about relationships and skills for working in groups. In the Senior units, students are expected to show competent leadership and decision–making skills which relate to their group work.
Frequently Asked Questions (VCAA)
Frequently Asked Questions (VCAA)
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