What is VET Delivered to Secondary Students?

VETDSS enables you to get real hands-on experience within a chosen industry, obtain a nationally recognised/accredited qualification and increase your career prospects by combining your secondary school studies with a Vocational Education and Training (VET) program.

A VETDSS program can:

• Prepare you for the workforce by providing hands on experience and getting you ‘job ready’.
• Provide a nationally-recognised qualification for a specific industry.
• Provide you with pathway opportunities and credit for higher level qualifications within the same vocational area.

What are the benefits?

• Provides the skills and ability to achieve competencies which will enhance your employment and further training prospects.
• Provides ‘work-ready’ knowledge and skills applicable to a variety of career paths in your chosen industry.
• May shorten the duration of an apprenticeship program after Year 12 through credit recognition and articulation arrangements

Guaranteed Pathways to Bendigo TAFE

All students who successfully complete an eligible VETDSS course through Bendigo TAFE will be guaranteed a place in a pathway course – giving you peace of mind when it comes to your study choice after secondary school.

How do VET programs contribute to VCE and VCE VM?

Please refer to the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority for further information. 

For Parents and Students
Please refer to our VETDSS Course Guide to view programs available through Bendigo TAFE. If you would like to submit an Expression of Interest for a program, please do this by contacting your School. All Expressions of Interest must be submitted through a Secondary School. Bendigo TAFE will not accept Expressions of Interest directly from Parents/Students.

Unique Student Identifier (USI)
All VETDSS Students must provide Bendigo TAFE with their USI when completing an expression of interest form on our VETDSS Portal. This is a compulsory requirement for any student wishing to study a VET program. If you do not already have a USI, then you must access the following website and follow the instructions www.usi.gov.au

VETDSS Program Cost
All VETDSS Programs will incur a tuition and materials cost. Costs vary for each program and location. Bendigo TAFE will invoice Schools directly for all VETDSS programs.
Any queries regarding program costs from the parent/guardian should be directed to the Secondary School.
Contracting and Invoices will be processed during Term 1 and 2.

Child Safety
Bendigo TAFE is a Child Safe Organisation, find out more here.