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Tisc Important Dates, Rotary Youth Exchange and WA Training Awards Finalists
WA Training Award Finalists Announced
Congratulations to the outstanding finalists in the 2024 Training Awards.
There are 41 finalists across 12 categories.
The School Based Apprentice of the Year finalists are:
- Emily Everett
- Ffion Henderson
- Noah McCallum
- Taya Sawtell
The announcement of winners is on 20 September
VET-in-Schools enrolments hit a quarter of a million students
The number of VET-in-School students in Australia rose by 3.8% to more than a quarter of a million last year, according to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. There were 252,105 VET-in-Schools students, comprising 19,310 school-based apprentices and trainees, and 232,795 students undertaking other VET in Schools programs.
An estimated 27% of 15 to 19 year-old school students participated in VET-in-Schools in 2023, with the number growing by 7% over the last five years.Queensland has the largest number of VET-in-School students – 101,780, followed by Victoria (53,820), NSW (46,525), Western Australia (31,440), South Australia (11,855), Tasmania (2,350), Northern Territory (2,315), and ACT (2,015).In 2023, there were 342,090 VET-in-Schools enrolments in training package qualifications, an increase of 4.2% from 2022. The most popular training package was Tourism, Travel and Hospitality (52,915 or 15.5%), followed by Sport, Fitness and Recreation (48,060 or 14.0%).
From TDA News
TISC Important Dates 2024/2025
| Saturday, 31 August | 11.59pm Final closing date for the Veterinary Science course at Murdoch - you can't apply for this course or add it as a new preference after today. You can still change the order of existing preferences on your preference list |
| Monday, 2 September | Early conditional offers begin to Year 12 applicants for first preference. First early offer despatch day. |
| Tuesday, 24 September | Early conditional offers despatch for Year 12 applicants for first preference. |
| Monday, 30 September | 11.59pm - Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Curtin, the Assured Pathway to Dentistry, Medicine, and Podiatry at UWA and the Assured Pathway to Medicine at Notre Dame - you can't apply for these courses or add new preferences for these courses after today. You can still change the order of existing preferences on your preference list. |
| Monday, 14 October | Early conditional offers despatch for Year 12 applicants for first preference. |
| Monday, 18 November | Early conditional offers despatch for Year 12 applicants for first preference. |
| Friday, 29 November | 5pm - Closing deadline for submission of Educational Access Scheme applications and supporting documentation for Main round consideration. |
| Monday 2 December | Last Early conditional offers despatch to Year 12 applicants for first preference. |
| Monday, 9 December | 11.59pm - Closing date for change of address for WACE students for mailing of Universities Admission Advice Letter. |
| Wednesday, 11 December | 11.59pm - Final date for you to upload documents/transcripts of results for the main round of offers. |
| Sunday, 15 December | WA 2024 ATAR results and Universities Admission Advice Letters online. |
| Tuesday, 17 December | 11.59pm - Closing date to apply and add/re-arrange preferences, and to update your postal and/or email addresses, before the Main round of offers. |
| Saturday, 21 December | Main round offers available online and emailed. Applications and change of preferences re-open for Second round of offers. |
Rotary Youth Exchange 2025 Applications
This brilliant program for candidates aged 15 - 19.
Students can go overseas and live with a family for a whole academic year.
- Short Term - programs range from a few days to a few weeks
- Long Term – spanning the whole academic year.
Everyone who does the Rotary Youth Exchange raves about it. They make new friends, say their host family is like a new family to them, and they learn a new culture.
Many parents go to visit students who are on a year exchange.
The program is decentralized with each district arranging exchanges with other districts.
If ANYTHING goes wrong the local Rotary Branch will be there to sort out the problem.
Applicants are selected by a sponsoring Rotary club on the basis of a written application and a personal interview, and qualified applicants are above average students who demonstrate community involvement and possess the potential to be an excellent cultural ambassador. Students with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Contact your local Rotary club to see what exchange opportunities are available and what the application process involves.
Start to explore what is possible HERE.