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

The 2024-25 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 overcome acute challenges to on-site delivery of the certificates in local government schools.

Funding awarded through the 2024-25 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 VCE VM and VPC programs.

A further round of the CCAF will run in 2025.

Eligibility

Applications can be made by:

• government secondary schools that will be delivering the VCE VM and/or VPC in 2025, and
• government specialist schools with senior secondary aged students that will be delivering the VCE VM and/or VPC in 2025.

Available funding

Schools can apply or funding under either, or both, objectives of the CCAF and different funding thresholds apply.

• Objective 1: up to $10,000 per school
• Objective 2: up to $30,000 per school

For applications made under Objective 1, schools are strongly encouraged to apply in partnership with other government schools and/or TAFE non-school providers. This will enable funding awarded through the CCAF to support the sharing of outputs and learnings across Victoria.

Further information on funding, including examples and information on applying in partnership, is available in the Guidelines.

Please note that this is a competitive grant round and not all applicant schools 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 the process.

Applicant schools 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 13 September 2024.