Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a move aimed at keeping students at school longer, the Victorian Government introduced the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WHEN the leaders of school principal, teacher and parent groups held one of their regular meetings with state government education ...

SOME VCAL students say they would not have finished high school if the applied learning course was not offered. Journalist covering courts and general news at the Bendigo Advertiser.

Principals from Victoria's specialist schools fear they will be hit hardest by the Government's decision to cut $12 million in funding from the secondary schools' vocational option. Around 20,000 ...

BROTHERHOOD of St Laurence staff fear a VCAL program will be axed without a funding commitment ahead of November’s state election. Corey, 17, of Mornington, and Devon, 18, of Cranbourne, struggled for ...

Kaylee Stoffels believes that she and her VCAL classmates were viewed as the "dumb ones" at her old school. "I would say the school didn't value VCAL like it did the VCE," she says. "They see us as ...

A shared love of music has brought a group of struggling students together to produce a radio program, improving their communication and confidence. After not finding much success at school, a group ...

WHEN the leaders of school principal, teacher and parent groups held one of their regular meetings with state government education officials recently, they received an unpleasant surprise. An official ...

SOME VCAL students say they would not have finished high school if the applied learning course was not offered.