Collaboration and Curriculum Access Fund

The VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM) and Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) were introduced in 2023, providing students with access to high-quality, relevant vocational education and applied learning programs in their senior secondary years.

Building on funding invested by the Victorian Government in 2022, a further $2.4 million over 2 years has been committed to continue the Collaboration and Curriculum Access Fund (CCAF) in 2024-25 and 2025-26.

The 2025-26 round of the CCAF will provide targeted funding to support government schools to build strong collaborative practice across schools, and with TAFE non-school providers, to support high-quality delivery of VCE VM and VPC programs, and support schools to introduce the VPC from 2026.

Funding awarded through the 2025-26 round of the CCAF will support the following objectives:

• Objective 1: Building collaboration amongst schools, and between schools and TAFE non-school providers
• Objective 2: Supporting student access to VPC programs.

Eligibility

Applications can be made by:

• government secondary schools that will be delivering the VCE VM and/or VPC in 2026, and
• government specialist schools with senior secondary aged students that will be delivering the VCE VM and/or VPC in 2026.

Available funding

Objective 1: Building collaboration amongst schools, and between schools and TAFE non-school providers

• Schools must apply in partnership with other government schools and/or TAFE non-school providers.
• Partnerships can apply for funding of up to $10,000 per partner school.

Objective 2: Supporting student access to VPC programs

• Individual schools can apply for funding of up to $30,000.

Further information on funding is available in the Guidelines.

Please note that this is a competitive grant round and not all applicant schools or partnerships will be successful.

Applying for CCAF funding

Schools and partnerships are encouraged to work closely with area Jobs Skills and Pathways teams to complete the application process, including testing the proposed use of funding before commencing an application.

Applicant schools or partnerships must complete the Application Form at Part B of the Guidelines and submit it via email to sspr.provision@education.vic.gov.au, CC: your school's area Jobs Skills and Pathways team key contact, by 11.59pm 1 August 2025.