VTAC offer guide: Vocational education (TAFE)

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for this course, or your offer will expire and your place in this course will be re-allocated.

This course will commence in the VET February Intake on Monday 6 February 2023.

Police Check and Working with Children Check

Your course includes a professional placement as part of your assessment. You must have both a valid National Police Record Check (NPRC) and a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) to undertake your placement.

For information about the NPRC and how to apply for one, please visit Victoria Police’s webpage about the NPRC. For information about the WWCC and how to apply for one, please visit the Victorian State Government’s webpage about WWCC.

Please proceed with your enrolment, and you will be provided further information about the NPRC and WWCC requirements in your first weeks of classes.

Applicants must obtain a National Police Check at least 10 weeks prior to clinical placement commencement, with no disclosable offences. If an applicant believes there would be a disclosable issue on their national police check, a confidential conversation will be required prior to enrolment to determine suitability for work within the healthcare environment. All applicants must maintain a current Working with Children Check (Volunteer or Employee) throughout the duration of the program.

Immunisations

This course requires up-to-date evidence of immunisations. If you are not able to provide up-to-date evidence, you will not be able to attend the clinical placement component of this course.
Find out more information about the minimum immunisation requirement. 

Additional immunisations may be required in response to any changes in Government policy or the specific requirements of the organisation you attend for your clinical placement. Further information will be provided at the commencement of the course.

Immunisations are a requirement to work within health, and up-to-date evidence of immunisations are required to complete assessment requirements within the workplace. Applicants who are not willing to provide up-to-date evidence will not be eligible to complete this program. Immunisation requirements include the following:

• Measles/Mumps/Rubella
• Diphtheria/Tetanus/ Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
• Tuberculosis
• Varicella (Chickenpox)
• Hepatitis B
• Influenza (Annual requirement)
• COVID-19

The requirements in this section are only applicable if you are accepting an offer into one of the following courses:

• Certificate IV in Community Services
• Diploma of Community Services
• Certificate IV in Mental Health
• Certificate IV in Youth Work
• Certificate IV in Disability
   

Police Check and Working with Children Check

All applicants must have both a valid National Police Record Check (NPRC) and a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) for the duration of the program.

For information about the NPRC and how to apply for one, please visit Victoria Police’s webpage about the NPRC. For information about the WWCC and how to apply for one, please visit the Victorian State Government’s webpage about WWCC.

Please proceed with your enrolment, and you will be provided further information about the NPRC and WWCC requirements in your first weeks of classes.

The following information is applicable to the Certificate IV in Disability

All applicants must hold a current National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Screening Check for the duration of the program. Students must also provide proof of appropriate vaccinations, including COVID-19.

This course will commence in the VET March Intake on Monday 27 February 2023.

The following information is applicable to the Certificate IV in Mental Health

Particular placement organisations may require up-to-date evidence of immunisations, including COVID-19 vaccinations. If required, and you are unable to provide up-to-date evidence, you will not be able to attend that placement organisation. Additional immunisations may be required in response to any changes in Government policy, or the specific requirements of the organisation you attend for your placement.

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for this course, or your offer will expire and your place in this course will be re-allocated.

For applicants studying at Wantirna campus, this course will commence Monday 30 January 2023

For applicants studying at Hawthorn campus, this course will commence Monday 13 February 2023.

The following courses commence in the VET March intake on Monday 27 February 2023:

• Diploma of Community Services
• Certificate IV in Youth Work
• Certificate IV in Community Services
   

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for these courses, or your offer will expire and your place in the course will be re-allocated.

This course will commence in the VET February Intake on Monday 20 February 2023.

Police Check and Working with Children Check

Your course includes a professional placement as part of your assessment. You must have both a valid National Police Record Check (NPRC) and a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) to undertake your placement.

For information about the NPRC and how to apply for one, please visit Victoria Police’s webpage about the NPRC. For information about the WWCC and how to apply for one, please visit the Victorian State Government’s webpage about WWCC.

Please proceed with your enrolment, and you will be provided further information about the NPRC and WWCC requirements in your first weeks of classes.

Physical capability

Students must be able to perform the physical activities required to pass the unit called Provide emergency first aid response in an education and care setting (unit code HLTAID004.) An example would be that students must be able to administer CPR for two minutes to a mannequin that is on the floor.

Immunisations

This course requires up-to-date evidence of immunisations. If you are not able to provide this up-to-date evidence, you will not be able to attend the clinical placement component of this course. 

For more information about vaccination for healthcare workers, please visit the Victorian Government website. Additional immunisations may be required in response to any changes in Government policy or the specific requirements of the organisation you attend for your placement. Further information will be provided at the commencement of the course.

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for this course, or your offer will expire and your place in this course will be re-allocated.

This course will commence in the VET February Intake on Monday 30 January 2023.

Police Check and Working with Children Check

All applicants must maintain a current Working with Children Check and a current Police Check throughout the duration of the program.

For information about the NPRC and how to apply for one, please visit Victoria Police’s webpage about the NPRC. For information about the WWCC and how to apply for one, please visit the Victorian State Government’s webpage about WWCC.

Please proceed with your enrolment, and you will be provided further information about the NPRC and WWCC requirements in your first weeks of classes.

This offer is conditional on the successful completion of the Marketing and Communication Foundations Skill Set.

Please complete the below steps for the Diploma of Marketing and Communications. When you receive your enrolment instructions, you will be asked to enrol into both the Foundations skill set and the Diploma.

Classes for the Foundations skill set commence on Monday 20 February 2023. Classes for the Diploma of Marketing and Communication commence on Monday 1 May 2023.

Note: The Marketing and Communication Foundations Skill Set has course fees which are non-deferrable. Find out more

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for this course, or your offer will expire and your place in this course will be re-allocated. You cannot defer your studies in this course.

This course will commence in the VET February Intake on Monday 30 January 2023.

Immunisations

This course requires up-to-date evidence of immunisations. If you are not able to provide up-to-date evidence, you will not be able to attend the clinical placement component of this course.
Find out more information about the minimum immunisation requirement. 

Additional immunisations may be required in response to any changes in Government policy or the specific requirements of the organisation you attend for your clinical placement. Further information will be provided at the commencement of the course.

Physical capability

Students must be able to perform the physical activities required to pass the unit called Provide emergency first aid response in an education and care setting (unit code HLTAID004.) An example would be that students must be able to administer CPR for two minutes to a mannequin that is on the floor.

Police Check and Working with Children Check

Your course includes a professional placement as part of your assessment. You must have both a valid National Police Record Check (NPRC) and a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) to undertake your placement.

For information about the NPRC and how to apply for one, please visit Victoria Police’s webpage about the NPRC. For information about the WWCC and how to apply for one, please visit the Victorian State Government’s webpage about WWCC.

Please proceed with your enrolment, and you will be provided further information about the NPRC and WWCC requirements in your first weeks of classes.

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for this course, or your offer will expire and your place in this course will be re-allocated. You cannot defer your studies in this course.

This course will commence in the VET March Intake on Monday 27 February 2023.

This course will commence in the VET February Intake on Monday 20 February 2023.

If you have been issued a packaged offer for the Diploma of Teacher Education Preparation and the Bachelor of Education (Primary), successful completion of your diploma allows you to meet the entry criteria for the bachelor degree.

Progression to the Bachelor of Education (Primary) is also conditional upon you passing the Casper selection test to assess your non-academic, personal and professional attributes. The Casper test is an Australian Government requirement and all applicants to this degree must sit the test. We would recommend sitting the Casper test towards the end of your diploma studies, and you’ll receive an email reminder of this closer to the time. Further information and availability of Casper tests can be found on the Altus webpage.

You must meet the pre-enrolment and enrolment deadlines for this course, or your offer will expire and your place in this course will be re-allocated. 

This course will commence in the VET March Intake on Monday 27 February 2023.

To begin, you’ll need to create your new log-in details, obtain a Unique Student Identifier (USI) and verify your identity:

1. Your username will be your new Swinburne student ID (as shown on the email you received from us)
2. Then create a password here
3. You will need to create a Unique Student Identifier (USI) if you haven’t done so already. This is a government requirement. If you don’t have a USI, get one now.
4. You will be required to obtain a ‘GreenID’, which is the process we use to verify your identity. With your identification documents on hand, visit the VixVerify – GreenID site to obtain your GreenID. You will be asked to provide this as part of the steps below.

We’re required by the government to ask you some further questions. This can take up to one hour to complete, and we recommend using a desktop computer or laptop.

The portal we use to obtain this information from you is our Online Application Portal, and you are considered as a ‘Returning applicant’. As you have already been issued a course offer, we are not assessing this information as an ‘application’. We are simply using this system for you to complete your pre-enrolment steps.

TIP! It’s important you save your work as you go. If you need to log out (or if the system times out) you can log in and return to the point you last saved.

To begin this process:

1. Log in to the Swinburne Applications website
2. In the ‘Returning applicant’ section, log in using your Student ID and new password.
    

1. Go to the My Applications tab.

2. Click Add New.

3. In the search box, enter NC-TAFE.

4. The search result that appears should be TAFE Pre-Enrolment - NC-TAFE.

TIP! The campus location associated with the TAFE pre-enrolment steps is ‘Hawthorn’, but this also applies to offers at Croydon and Wantirna campuses. Please proceed with the next step regardless of which campus your offer is for.

5. Click ‘Apply’

6. When ‘NC-TAFE Pre-enrolment’ has been added to your application, click on ‘Proceed with Application’

7. Next, you will see information related to scholarships, click on ‘Skip this step’.

8. Next, you will see information related to advanced standing, click on ‘Skip this step’ and ‘Proceed with Application’. If you would like to apply for advanced standing (academic credit) after you've enrolled, you can find further information here on how to apply.

9. Follow the steps as they are shown on the screen. Again, remember to save as you go.

The steps that you will complete are as follows:

Pre-training review

This helps us to ensure you are enrolled in the course best suited to your needs, and helps to identify any support services you may benefit from to help successfully complete your studies.

Skills First

This scheme aims to make vocational education more accessible by subsidising the cost of study for eligible students. By completing these simple questions, we can help you check your eligibility.

Free TAFE for Priority Courses

Certain courses Swinburne offers through VTAC are part of the Free TAFE for Priority Courses program. This Victorian government initiative allows students that have received an offer for one of these courses, and are eligible for government-subsidised training, to study the course free of tuition fees.

If you received an offer for one of these courses listed in the Free TAFE for Priority Courses Initiative, you may be eligible provided you:

• have not accessed the initiative before OR
• are continuing a free TAFE course you started at another eligible institution.

Eligible students can access this initiative for one free course only, so consider your training choice carefully. Please visit our website if you would like to know more about Free TAFE for Priority Courses at Swinburne. Confirmation of your eligibility will be provided once we have processed your pre-enrolment information.

JobTrainer

Certain courses Swinburne offers through VTAC are part of the JobTrainer program. This federal and state government initiative allows students that have received an offer for one of these courses, and are eligible for government-subsidised training, to study the course either free of tuition fee or at a reduced cost, depending on your course.

If you have received an offer for one of these courses listed in the JobTrainer Initiative, you may be eligible provided you are:

• 17 to 24 years old when the course starts; or
• a job seeker of any age, where a job seeker is defined as a person who: holds a valid and current Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Veteran’s Gold Card; or is unemployed.

You must not have commenced a full qualification under JobTrainer before. You can commence only one qualification and one skill set under JobTrainer, even if you don't complete your course, so consider your training choices carefully. Confirmation of your eligibility will be provided once we have processed your pre-enrolment information.

Verify your identity - GreenID

We use VixVerify – GreenID to verify your identity. If you’ve completed this step before commencing the pre-enrolment process, you need only enter the GreenID when requested. If you are yet to complete this, simply gather your identification documents and follow the prompts to obtain your GreenID.

Unique Student Identifier

This reference number is a government requirement for all students doing a nationally recognised course. It creates a secure online record of your training and qualifications. We recommend obtaining a USI now as you will not be able to enrol in your units until you provide one. If you don’t have a USI, get one now.

Language, literacy and numeracy

The government requires us to evaluate your language, literacy and numeracy levels. This helps us to support you in your course selection, and to identify any assistance you might require.

Important: If you have recently completed VCE you may not need to perform this step. Follow the prompts when asked about the study you have completed, and you will be advised about any additional requirements.

TIP! If you are required to complete any component of the language, literacy and numeracy evaluation, the password you use in this section is the word swinburne. This system uses a generic password for everyone, not the personal password you created with your student ID.

10. Then click 'Submit Application'

TIP! If you log out, or the system times out, before you have finalised and submitted all of your information, the screen you will see when logging back in to the system will be ‘Personal Details’. From here, use the tab at the top left of the screen for ‘My Applications’ to return to the pre-enrolment steps. If you do not have any information saved from your previous attempt, click on ‘Add New’ and recommence the process, otherwise click on ‘Resume’ to return the place you last saved.

When you’ve completed the steps, you will receive an automated response to confirm your application submission. This means you have submitted the information required to complete your pre-enrolment steps.

We’ll then just check your submission to ensure everything is complete. This might take a few days. If we have any queries about the information you have provided, we’ll get in touch.

Once we have checked your submission, we will email you with instructions on how to enrol in your course.