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The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) How are education systems responding to the needs of young people 'on the margins' of schools?
In Victoria, a large scale system change has been initiated to introduce the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) alongside the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), in order to provide diversity in post-compulsory education options.
This has occurred in response to concern among many communities that there is an increasing number of young people who have found that post compulsory education is not useful for their lives and so are disengaging from mainstream schooling without completing secondary schooling.
This Case Study provides an overview of the operation of VCAL, and then outlines one example of a local initiative within VCAL that has been encouraged by that support for diversity, to offer a community-based 'satellite' VCAL for young people who were out of schools and/or whose needs were not currently being met by mainstream schooling.
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Contact:
Michael Nelson
Phone: (03) 5153 1516
Written by:
Helen Stokes
Australian Youth Research Centre
Faculty of Education
The University of Melbourne |
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