Scholarships and Incentives
Career Change Program - Are you eligible?
The Career Change Program targets people with current industry knowledge and expertise who would make excellent teachers in the targeted subject areas.
Minimum requirements for admission to the program for graduates is an approved university degree, including study in the relevant subject area to the level prescribed in the Victorian Institute of Teaching's Specialist Area Guidelines. You will be given preference if you have at least three years of relevant professional experience.
The Specialist Area Guidelines prescribe the following minimum levels of study in the targeted subject areas:
- Chemistry - sub-major study in chemistry or biochemistry
- Information Technology - sub-major in information technology
- LOTE - an Advanced level major study in the language requiring successful completion of Year 12 studies in the language for entry into the program. Native speakers of the language may seek a statement of equivalence from a Victorian university, to verify that their knowledge and competence in the language meets the equivalent standard of a post-Year 12 Advanced level major study in the language. See: Statement of Equivalence.
- Mathematics - sub-major in Mathematics, with Statistics accepted as Mathematics provided it is taken within a Mathematics department
- Music - major in Music which includes Practical Music, or a major in Music together with AMEB Grade VI or Year 12 Practical Music
- Physics - sub-major study in physics or electronics
- Science - sub-major in General Science, which includes studies in at least two of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science/Geology, and Physics, or sub-major in one of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science/Geology and Physics together with a part in another of these areas of study
- Technology - one year of study in Technology Studies which includes studies in a range of materials and systems. For Automotive Studies, Wood or Metal a sub-major study is required in the specialist area. This study may be additional to or part of the minimum one year of study.
If you are a prospective teacher in Technology Studies and do not hold an approved university degree, minimum requirements for admission to the program are either:
- an approved certificate of proficiency/completion in a trade together with relevant industrial experience such that the period of apprenticeship and the industrial experience totals not less than eight years; and an approved trade technician course or an approved equivalent program of post-apprenticeship studies, or
- an approved certificate of technology, together with a minimum of six years of approved industrial experience.
More information
Contact
Research and Workforce Planning Unit
Mark Newton
Phone (03) 9637 2376
Email newton.mark.m@edumail.vic.gov.au