Why VCAL is being scrapped

Victoria’s vocational high school certificate will be merged with the VCE in an effort to remove the “stigma” for non-academic children.

The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning will be completely scrapped by 2025.

Rebecca Casson, CEO of Master Builders Victoria, welcomed the news.

“There is a perception problem,” she told Neil Mitchell.

Some 25,000 students undertook the VCAL program last year.

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