TAFE/RTO offsite courses

Individualised Pathway Planning

If your chosen career isn’t listed as an Industry Pathway nor a certificate option at Sevenoaks Senior College, you have a variety of options to experience different certificates, including:

• apply to TAFE to participate in one of the Vocational Education and Training Delivered to Secondary Students (VETDSS) certificate options one or two days per week while studying for the remainder of the week at Sevenoaks Senior College, or
• apply as a private student to an external program for one or two days per week while studying for the remainder of the week at Sevenoaks Senior College. This option is called a Notice of Arrangement (NOA).

With each of these options you will enrol in Workplace Learning to gain experience in the career field.

TAFE VETDSS

Both South Metropolitan TAFE and North Metropolitan TAFE offer a wide variety of VET qualifications to secondary students.

• Students attend a TAFE campus one or two days per week to complete their course and participate in their normal school program on the other days.
• Secondary school students undertaking VETDSS courses as part of their secondary education including pre-apprenticeships in schools courses are exempt from tuition, resource and enrolment fees. However, depending on the chosen course students may be required to purchase a uniform, protective equipment, textbooks or trade equipment/tools.

Students can apply for these certificates directly to the TAFE however, there is a limited application period. Refer to the South Metropolitan TAFE and North Metropolitan TAFE webpages to see how to apply and the deadlines.

Notice of Arrangement (NOA)

A variety of Registered Training Organisations (RTO) offer private certificates for school aged students. Some of these are offered as online or one or two days per week.

These programs are user pays and a private arrangement between the student, parent/guardian and RTO.

If a student enrols in one of these programs, they can apply for a Notice of Arrangement (the NOA application form is available from the Sevenoaks Senior College Program Coordinator – Relationships and Partnerships). If the NOA application is approved by the Department of Education, the student is allowed to be both a student at the private RTO and school part-time.