Centralian Secondary College offers a Course, Career and Transition Adviser who is available to provide advice to students and parents on such matters as:

• individual student learning pathway plans 
• career pathways
• university applications
• traineeships
• apprenticeships
• structured work placements 
• work experience.

The Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training (NTCET) qualification is designed to recognise the knowledge and skills that have been acquired through formal education and training.

The completion requirements, approved by the Minister for Education, make the NTCET a unique and contemporary certificate that is closely aligned with senior secondary directions in other states.

South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Board of SA subjects are taught to gain an NTCET.

NTCET recognises flexible learning arrangements by allowing learning and skills both in and outside of school for increased opportunities to develop the business, interpersonal and employment-related skills needed for the future.  

This enables you to combine study and part-time work, a traineeship or a school-based apprenticeship to achieve this. You can get credit for academic studies, vocational training, skilled work and community learning.

There are two stages of the NTCET:

Stage 1 is generally started in Year 10 and completed in Year 11

Stage 1 marking occurs at the school and is quality assured through the NT Department of Education – Senior Years Team.

Stage 2 is generally completed in Year 12. Marking and moderation of Stage 2 subjects occur through the SACE Board.

Button: Understanding the NTCET https://tinyurl.com/wqkdu8t

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From SACE to university

Your application for university and TAFE courses are handled by SATAC (South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre). To be eligible to apply for university, you must:

• complete the SACE
• complete at least 90 credits at Stage 2, of which at least 60 credits must be from 20-credit Tertiary Admissions Subjects (TAS), and the other 30 credits from TAS, and up to 20 credits of Recognised Studies
• complete any prerequisites required for your chosen university courses
• comply with the rules regarding subject combinations and preclusions
• obtain an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR).

The SATAC website and individual university websites explain what you’ll need to study specific courses.

The College provides a school-to-work transition program, the Workplace Studies Program, that enables students to incorporate vocational studies as a part of the NTCET and assists students to access school-based apprenticeships, full-time apprenticeships plus further training and employment.

The Workplace Studies Program is structured to allow students to more easliy complete relevant nationally accredited VET competencies and also fulfil the Stage 1 and Stage 2 pattern requirements for the NTCET.  As all students have different needs the program caters for this as students embark on individual programs that are tailored to the outcomes they require.  Flexibility is required in order to cater for VET subjects and workplace structures. 

Students can be School Based Apprentices (SBAs). The school can provide the flexibility to allow students to undertake structured work placements part-time and attend school part-time. They will also complete VET studies as required. This allows the SBAs to work towards completing their apprenticeship while also working toward their NTCET. This is a flexible, individually negotiated program.