BAYSIDE P-12 College has gone into debt to fund its own co-ordinator for the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) program after about $60,000 of funding was slashed by the state government.
And Williamstown High School’s budget will be on a “razor edge” after the school was forced to find $40,000 to fund a co-ordinator for VCAL, which is an alternative to the Victorian Certificate of Education, giving year 11 and 12 students practical work experience.
State Williamstown MP Wade Noonan lashed out at the Baillieu government for cutting almost $100,000 per year for co-ordinators at the two Hobsons Bay schools. “I’m particularly distraught that one of our local secondary schools is going into debt in order to keep their VCAL program going,” Mr Noonan said.
