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Vocational Learning Unit
CURRICULUM SUPPORT DIRECTORATE

The Vocational Learning Unit within the Department's Curriculum Support Directorate is supporting schools with a range of programs and activities to ensure that students have opportunities to participate in curriculum initiatives focussed on vocational learning. The following support is available to schools to better prepare students for the transition from school to work, further education and training:

• a Stage 5 Work Education course which is being piloted in over fifty schools
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• careers markets; tertiary education, employment and training seminars which provide personal information to students about post-school options
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• the FutureWork resource package which provides teachers with information on the changing nature of work, the workplace and trends in the labour market
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• the Workplace Learning Handbook which will comprise detailed and comprehensive information to support the implementation of the full range of workplace learning programs (to be available Term 4 1998)
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• industry specific careers information and resources such as An introduction to hospitality CD-ROM (to be available Term 4 1998)
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• the Individual School to Work Plans Program support package for teachers which will assist students to develop individual school exit plans (available to selected schools in 1998)
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• external programs which contribute to enterprise and career education such as Australian Business Week, E-Team (Australian Quality Council) and Young Achievement Australia's Business Skills and A Business Enterprise by enabling students to develop business skills
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• Enterprise Days which assist students to interact with young people in enterprises
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• the Recognition of Work Related Skills project which aims to document student participation in a broad range of work-related activities
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• the Teachers in Business program which provides teachers with professional development opportunities in industry
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• students to learn about work and workplaces and are generally delivered by careers advisers who assist students to explore and consider a range of school and post-school options available to them.
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Staff:

Joe Denaro, Principal Education Officer
ph 02 9886 7410
Vocational Learning

Glyn Evans, Coordinator - ph 02 9886 7614
Enterprise Learning

Yvonne Hardy, Coordinator - ph 02 9886 7552
Workplace Learning

vacant position, Coordinator
Work and Career Education

Carmel Senese, Coordinator - ph 02 9886 7538
School to Work Program

Toby Prentice, Coordinator - ph 02 9886 7613
National Voacational Education Project

Barry Duncan, Coordinator - ph 02 9886 7682
Indigenous Education Initiatives

Maria Moore/Warren Sebbens - ph 02 9886 7540
Clerical Support

Unit fax 02 9886 7657
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First published October 3, 1998. Last modified October 31, 1999.