NSW Schools
NSW school students can get credit in TAFE NSW courses for study in Year 11 and 12.
Any student can apply for Recognition of Prior Learning if you can show evidence that you have all the skills and knowledge of modules in the TAFE course you want to do. For example, you may know a lot about computers, from home and school experience, and may be able to get credit towards a Certificate II or III in Information Technology.
Read more information about Recognition of Prior Learning on our
Recognition Page.
Vocational courses, including TVET Schools in NSW can offer vocational courses. Some of these are taught in school and others are taught in TAFE. These are known as TVET courses (TAFE delivered Vocational Education and Training courses).
When you finish you vocational course, you receive a Board of Studies Statement of Competencies. This is the evidence that you successfully completed these competencies.
If you enrol in a TAFE course that includes some of these competencies, then TAFE will try to grant you Recognition for these competencies. This is called
Mutual Recognition.
If you want to apply for Recognition interstate, you can get copies of the syllabus documents for all NSW HSC courses from the
Board of Studies website.
Interstate Schools
If you attended school in a state or territory of Australia other than New South Wales, you can still apply for Recognition of Prior Learning in TAFE NSW.
It may surprise you to know that Australia does not have national curricula in schools, so the subjects you studied may be quite different in content to those that are taught in New South Wales.
All the Syllabus documents for NSW Higher School Certificate courses are available on the internet, so you may be able to find syllabus documents for the courses you studied interstate on the internet as well.