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<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D2 face=3DTahoma><span lang=3DEN-US
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vet-it-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:vet-it-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><s=
pan
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>James GIBNEY<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 23 March 2007 1=
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PM<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vet-it@edulists.com.au<br=
>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> bm@sthelena.vic.edu.au<br=
>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [vet-it] Cert III Ne=
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course</span></font><span lang=3DEN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>At parent teacher night last night I had a parent ask me=
 how
many units their son would have to do at TAFE when they finished their units=
 1
to 4 in VET IT at school. Their son is doing units 1 &amp; 2 this year and n=
ext
year will do 3 &amp; 4 next year.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>According to the VCAA book, for the Application stream th=
ey
need to complete 8 units to get their Units 1 &amp; 2 and&nbsp;7 nits to
complete units 3 &amp; 4. How many more units will they need to do at TAFE t=
o
get the full certificate?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All up this is 15 units. On page 5 of the book it says th=
ey
need to do the core units of competence from Cetificate II which are units 1
&amp; 2. Then for Cert III they have to do six common core units PLUS four
specialists core stream units PLUS four elective units.</span></font><o:p></=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10=
.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The students here will have at the end of their year 12:=
 15
core units of which 2 are from the Applications stream. Does this mean that
they still have to do another 2 specialist core stream units PLUS four elect=
ive
units at TAFE to get their full certificate?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10=
.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As you can see I'm a bit confused about it all. Any help
would be appreciated.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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font-family:Arial'>James Gibney</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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