VPC | VICTORIAN PATHWAYS CERTIFICATE

Overview

The Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) is a new Year 11 and 12 certificate for students who are not able or ready to complete the VCE or VCE VM. It provides an enriched curriculum and excellent support for students to develop the skills, capabilities, and qualities for success in personal and professional life.

The VPC is suitable for students whose previous schooling experience may have been disrupted for a variety of reasons, including students with additional needs, students who have missed significant periods of learning and vulnerable students at risk of disengaging from their education.

Students will gain the skills, knowledge, values, and capabilities to make informed choices about pathways to transition either to the VCE VM or to entry level VET or employment. The curriculum accommodates student aspirations and future employment goals.

VPC learning programs connect students to industry experiences and active participation in the community. Through participation in the VPC students will gain necessary foundation skills to allow them to make a post-schooling transition.

Please note: that the Victorian Pathways Certificate will be subject to student enrolment.

Satisfactory completion of the VPC

The minimum requirements are satisfactory completion of 12 units which must include:

• at least two units of VPC Literacy (or units from the VCE English group including VCE VM Literacy)

• at least two units of VPC Numeracy (or units from the VCE Mathematics group including VCE VM Numeracy)

• at least two VPC Personal Development Skills units

• at least two VPC Work Related Skills units.

Students can also include units from VCE studies, VCE VM studies, and VET units of competency and receive structured workplace learning recognition (SWLR). Many students will undertake more than 12 units over the VPC.

The VPC is designed to be delivered in Year 11 and 12 and has a flexible duration that may be completed in a minimum of 12 months depending on a student’s individual learning plan.

The VPC has four studies. These are:

• Literacy enables the development of knowledge, skills, and capabilities relevant to reading, writing and oral communication and their practical application in the contexts of everyday life, family, employment, further learning, and community.

• Numeracy enables students to develop their everyday numeracy practices to make sense of their personal, public, and future vocational lives. Students develop foundational mathematical skills with consideration of their personal, home, vocational and community environments and contexts, and an awareness and use of accessible and appropriate technologies.

• Work Related Skills (WRS) enables the development of knowledge, skills, and personal attributes relevant to further education and employment. The study also provides practical, authentic opportunities for students to develop employability skills.

• Personal Development Skills (PDS) focuses on understanding and caring for self, and then engagement with community.

Each VPC study has two or four units. Each VPC unit of study has modules with specified learning goals. A VPC unit can only be satisfactorily completed once all modules within that unit have been completed.

Students are assessed through a range of activities and reported as S (Satisfactory) or N (Not Yet Complete). There are no external assessments of VPC studies. VPC studies do not contribute to the ATAR.