Careers and Pathways News

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.

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 and 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 10s and 11s 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