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Career Connections - RMIT & work placement
Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) is an essential part of a
quality vocational education and training (VET) program.
It provides real work place experience - for student's newly
developed vocational and technical skills.
Career Connections and SWL
RMIT Project officers have considerable experience and expertise
in the facilitation of SWL placements for students undertaking VET
in schools.
With the advent of the enlarged VET cluster in 2008 we
urge all schools to ensure that work placement becomes an important
and integral part of all VET courses.
For 2009 the program areas we will facilitate are:
Engineering
Furnishing
Automotive
Community Recreation
Community Services
Information Technology
Business Administration
Hospitality
Other programs if there is a demand from schools
2009 Changes
IN 2009, we intend to
tailor our support more closely to the needs of schools.
For some schools and programs it will mean a continuation of the
processes and procedures used in 2007.
But, for other schools we
will work take a more school-based approach.
This will mean working more closely with VET co-ordinators and
classroom teachers to ascertain the most effective ways of
facilitating work placements for students.
Resources
We have a number of resources to support your SWL program:
1. VET Coordinator’s Handbook
2. Student Record Training books for each program
3. Employers’ Manual
4. Search Kit to help students find their own work
placements
Student Certificates
All VET students who undertake a work placement are entitled to
receive a student’s certificate of participation.
These certificates include:
Student’s name
VET course
Host employer’s business name
VET & SWL Good news
We are keen to help students’ good news stories be told and to
recognise their achievement and the support of employers.
Please pass on the details of your students’ achievements and
positive experiences to the SWL Schools Liaison Officer at
Career Connections on 9925 7774.
This will be followed up with interview and photograph. These
can be published in our quarterly Career Connections newsletter and
on this website.
It is essential we have permission to publish. Please click here for a
permission form.
