Careers & Pathways
At Springside West Secondary College students are have access to targeted Careers and Pathways counselling from Year 9 onwards. The Middle Years team work closely with all students in Years 9 and 10 to explore different pathway options, which facilitate their course selection as they progress upwards into the Senior Years.
Year 10 Multi-Industry Pathway Program
The Multi-Industry Pathway Program is an initiative working with AGA to provide a small number of Year 10 students with the opportunity to undertake a suite of taster courses that pathway into Certificate I and II trade certificates. Below are details regarding the program, as well as frequently asked questions related to how the program operates in conjunction with Year 10 studies here at Springside West Secondary College.
AGA Multi-Industry Pathway Presentation
For more information on this program, please contact the Middle Years team.
Further information
Yes – each year SWSC will work in conjunction with AGA to finalise the cost that families will be charged to engage with this extra-curricular program.
No – the purpose of the MIP program is to assist students in better understanding their pathway choices. Discussions around pathway options into either the VCE or VCE-VM will subsequently occur as part of the careers counselling process throughout Semester One of Year 10.
For those students who enrol in the program, our expectation is that they complete the full semester program, attending each week at AGA. If a vocational major pathway is no longer what students wish to pursue, they will still have the opportunity to select to undertake the VCE instead at the end of Year 10.
Students enrolled with AGA for the MIP program, may be in a class with other SWSC students, or in a composite class with other students from across the Brimbank and Melton networks schools who are also enrolled. These class groupings are determined by AGA and will vary each semester.