School Based Traineeships

A school-based apprenticeship or traineeship combines:

  • part-time, practical experience in the workplace
  • formal, structured training with a Training provider
  • your school studies (VCE or VCAL)

What you need to know

A school-based traineeship must have the agreement of each of the following:

  • your parent or guardian (if you are under 18 years of age)
  • your school
  • your employer
  • your Training provider (Investment Banking Institute)

Investment Banking Institute Financial Services Traineeship Program

For further information about our Financial Services Industry traininship program contact IBI directly or school's careers advisor

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a School Based Traineeship?

A school-based apprenticeship or traineeship arrangement combines part-time work, structured training with a registered training organisation (RTO) and school studies. A school-based apprenticeship may give students credit towards their Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL).

From 2009, a School Based Traineeship refers to an arrangement whereby a student enrolled in a senior secondary certificate (VCE or VCAL) is also released from the weekly school timetable to attend the training organisation and/or workplace, during the normal school week. In effect, the School Based Traineeship is integrated within the student's senior certificate program.

Students undertaking an apprenticeship or traineeship that is not integrated into their school learning program and study timetable, are undertaking a Part-time Traineeship. This type of arrangement is no longer considered to be 'school-based' however students will still be able to receive credit toward their VCE or VCAL, when they are enrolled on VASS.

What is the time commitment for a student undertaking a School Based Traineeship?

From 2009, the minimum number of employment and training hours required for a School Based Traineeship is an average of 13 hours per week, over two years. This will comprise at least seven hours of employment and six hours of training per week which may be averaged over three periods of four months in each year of the program. Training should be averaged over three periods of four months in each year of the training contract. Some students will be released for blocks of training; some will spend more than two days per week in the workplace in paid employment.

Whatever arrangement is negotiated by the employer, registered training organisation and student/school, the student will be in employment and/or structured training as a trainee for a minimum of one day per school week.

When does the school endorse the Training Plan for a School Based Trainee?

In order for the training contract to be registered with Skills Victoria as a School Based Traineeship, a school representative is required to sign the student's training plan to acknowledge that

  • the student is enrolled in a senior secondary program (VCE or VCAL) and
  • it forms an integral part of the student's learning program and study timetable.

The signature is not an endorsement of the quality of the training nor acceptance of responsibility for the outcome of the Contract of Training. When the school representative signs the Training Plan, the school is undertaking responsibility to enrol the student on Victorian Assessment Software System (VASS) so that credit for the training within the VCE or VCAL can be awarded to the student.

The Training Plan must provide details of the qualification and the units of competence the student will be undertaking and should include a delivery schedule of the training.

Can a student undertake two or more School Based Traineeships concurrently?

In theory, a student can be enrolled in two or more separate qualifications all being undertaken through School Based Apprenticeship and Traineeship arrangements. In practice, however, it would be very difficult for a student to juggle the demands of more than one School Based Traineeship in combination with his/her VCE or VCAL program. The student would have to be employed in two or more work contexts/workplaces that are relevant to the two or more individual training programs, attend one or more training organisations to undertake the training particular to each qualification, and would have to meet the study requirements and outcomes for the senior secondary certificate in which they are enrolled.

If a student (15 years of age or over) wants to undertake a School Based Traineeship, do they have to be enrolled in the VCAL as their senior secondary certificate?

No, the student can be enrolled in either the VCE or the VCAL. Which qualification a student should enrol in is an individual school/student decision. However, students should be allowed to engage in a School Based Traineeship within either the VCE or VCAL.

What is the role of the school in School Based Traineeship?

The home school enrols the student on VASS according to the qualification and units of competence listed in the Training Plan. Schools enter results provided by the Registered Training Organisation (RTO).

Further information can be found at http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vet/programs/sbnafaq.html

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