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Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation
Course code: 22582VIC
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Aprille McMahon
Course Coordinator - Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation 22582VIC
Aprille McMahon
Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation is a fantastic course for people coming in who are looking to get into university. It's an admission requirement for about 40 destination courses in Higher Education at Victoria University. They really have an enormous number of courses they can go into and career opportunities that extend from that.
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Key Information:
Duration: 0.5 years full time
Delivery mode: Face to Face with eLearning
Location: Footscray Park
Aprille McMahon
The main focus of this course is to get students prepared for the types of skills they'll need when they go into a Higher Education course. We're going to give them the skills to present orally, you know, in terms of oral communication, 'cause that'll be a key part. One of the things we know about our Higher Ed courses is that there is a lot of presentation and group work done, skills like our collaborative learning, teamwork.
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Key Skills
- Academic reading, writing and research
- Problem solving
- Planning and organising
- Collaborative learning
- Team work
Aprille McMahon
Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation is broken up into two terms, so we'll do five units in the first term and five units in the second term. So the course goes for six months, and it's 10 units altogether. And students need to make sure that they do all 10 units, pass all 10 units in order to get the full qualification.
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10 units of competency
5 Core units - Term 1
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5 elective units - Term 2
CORE UNITS
VU23094 - Research study options and plan education pathway
VU23095 - Prepare for tertiary reading and writing
VU23096 - Communicate verbally in a further study context
VU23097 - Participate in collaborative learning
VU23098 - Conduct online research for further study
Elective Units
VU23100 - Participate in online collaborative learning
VU22074 - Use a range of techniques to solve mathematical problems
VU21881 - Apply essential further study skills
BSBCMM411 - Make presentations
BSBTEC302 - Design and produce spreadsheets
Daniel
I chose VU because they opened up a lot of doors for me. So they sort of started off by giving me a bit more of a chance. I didn't finish high school and I basically walked into VU, and they took me on and they helped me to keep moving forward to work towards my goals.
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Daniel
Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation 22582VIC
Ashley
I chose Victoria University because I knew it caters to a lot of different learning styles. And you don't just do knowledge, you get practical experience. And that's something that is very valuable to me. I'm a very hands-on learner. This is my pathway. This is the way I can get in to doing what I wanna do.
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Ashley
Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation 22582VIC
Pathways
- Vocational study at the same or higher-level courses
- Higher education undergraduate courses
Aprille McMahon
Another real benefit of this course is a unit the students will do right at the beginning. It's about researching their study options. And in that unit, they get an opportunity to think about what they might want to do next. And so with a teacher there all the time, they can be guided and assisted through that process, even to the point where we kind of talk to them about what documentation they might need, because that's often an important part of that process.
Daniel
While I was working through the Certificate in Tertiary Preparation, I started working with one of my teachers to get a few tips on writing a really good application letter. So I wrote an application letter for the Bachelor of Biomedical Science, and I ended up getting accepted. So I'm just about to finish my bachelor's degree and hopefully I'll be moving forward to undertake my honours and hopefully start working towards a PhD. My advice for students considering going into Higher Education would be to, don't be afraid of it. And these courses are here for you guys to push you, to actually enable you to apply for Higher Ed. They'll teach you how to succeed. They'll teach you how to do the work, how to prepare yourself, and how to be a really good student.
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