Careers and Pathways News

Yr 9 – 12 Building Careers Geelong – Construction Site Tour: Thursday 11 Sept, 2025 - 9:00am - 2pm

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: Try-a-trade tasters on commercial and domestic building sites, Tour the Gordon TAFE’s Building & Construction trade teaching areas, Prizes and giveaways on the day.

Please email Nick Masters for a registration form nicholas.masters@education.vic.gov.au

Subject Selections and VTAC Information Session and important dates

Subject Selection information for Years 9 -12 in 2026 will gradually be rolled out from early Term 3. Please see the information below with regard to the parent and student information sessions and other important dates for the relevant year levels. Follow up and reminder emails will be sent out closer to the dates below.

Event

Date

Year Level

VTAC Parent/Student information session

Monday 28th July

6.00pm – 7.00pm

Venue - PAC

Year 12 – University and TAFE Admissions 2026

Subject Selections 2026

Parent/Student information session

Thursday 31st July

5.30pm – 6.15pm

Venue - PAC

Year 9P into 10P SEALP

(Current 9P)

Subject Selections 2026

Parent/Student information session

Thursday 31st July

6.15pm – 7.00pm

Venue - PAC

Year 10A into 11A SEALP

(Current 10A)

Subject Selections 2026

Parent/Student information session

Thursday 31st July

7.00pm – 8.00pm

Venue - PAC

Year 10 into 11 Mainstream VCE and VCE-VM

Subject Selections 2026

Parent/Student information session

Monday 4th August

6.00pm – 7.00pm

Venue - PAC

Year 9 into 10 Mainstream

(not SEALP)

VTAC Applications OPEN

Monday 4th August

Year 12

Year 8 into 9 subject selection process outlined to students in class with forms returned by the due date.

Opens - 4th August

Closes - 15th August

Year 8 into 9

The Gordon VET Applications open (current Yr 10 and 11)

Opens - 7th August

For students currently in Yr 10 and 11 wanting to apply or reapply for a VET course at the Gordon only for 2026

VET applications close

Tuesday August 12th

Excluding The Gordon online applications

Year 10 into 11 Subject Selection Conferences – Online booking through Compass

Tuesday August 12th

12.00pm – 7.00pm

Venue - PAC

Year 10 into 11, 9P & 10A SEALP subjects DUE

The Gordon VET Applications open (current Yr 9)

Opens - 18th August

For students currently in Yr 9 wanting to apply or reapply for a VET course at the Gordon only for 2026

Year 9 into 10 Subject Selection Conferences – Online booking through Compass

Tuesday August 19th

12.00pm – 7.00pm

Venue - PAC

Year 9 Mainstream students (not SEALP) subjects DUE

VTAC Applications CLOSE

Monday 29th September

Year 12

Year 10 into 11 VCE and VCE-VM Subject Selection Conferences – these conferences are for school Leaders to discuss with the parents and students their subject selections for 2026. They will be held from 12pm to 7pm on Tuesday 12th August. No year 10’s & 9P SEALP will be required at school on that day and will be required to book a time through Compass. The School Leader will go over the subject selections and the expectations for VCE or VCE-VM for 2026. These conferences are designed to be a validation of the subjects selected by the student. All the paperwork, VET forms, signatures and subject research should have been done prior to these conferences.

Year 9 into 10 Subject Selection Conferences (not 9P SEALP) – these conferences are for school Leaders to discuss with the parents and students the subject selections for 2026. They will be held from 12pm to 7pm on Tuesday 19th August. No year 9’s (except 9P SEALP) will be required at school on that day and will be required to book a time through Compass. The School Leader will go over the subject selections and the expectations for Year 10, 2026. These conferences are designed to be a validation of the subjects selected by the student. All the paperwork, VET forms, signatures and subject research should have been done prior to these conferences.

Open Days

Open days at Universities, Private institutions and TAFE’S kick off soon. Have a look at the following link and plan which ones you would like to attend. I encourage not only Year 12’s but Year 10's and 11’s to consider attending some of these days.

https://vtac.edu.au/opendays.html

VTAC

A VTAC presentation will held for Year 12 students and Parents on the Monday 28th July for those wishing to apply for University, Private institutions and some TAFE’s for 2026. We will go through the process of applying, SEAS, Scholarships, change of preference and offers. I encourage students to go to the VTAC website and start the process of searching for courses that may be of interest and generate a preliminary list.

To do this go to www.vtac.com.au click on the ‘Find Courses’ tab and then into ‘Course Search Archive’. Please be aware that VTAC have not updated this website for 2026 yet, so students will be looking at current 2025 courses under the Course Search Archive Tab. Hopefully the updates from VTAC for 2026 will occur over the holidays.

There are also a huge number of resources on the VTAC website for parents and students to familiarise yourselves with before the information sessions and applications open in Term 3.

RESOURCES

The myfuture website provides resources to explore career pathways and tools to develop self-knowledge to help with career decision-making. https://myfuture.edu.au/home

Please email me at nicholas.masters@education.vic.gov.au or Megan McPherson Megan.McPherson@education.vic.gov.au if you have any Careers or VET related questions.

Nick Masters

Careers and Pathways Coordinator

Megan McPherson

VET Coordinator

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