Where have you come from? Where are you headed? Let GippsTAFE help you chart your way, with a pathway option that enhances your progression to career success.

Credit Transfer

Did you know that a subject completed at another institution or in another course can sometimes be credited towards your final result in a GippsTAFE course?

Contact the Department offering your course to discuss how this may apply to you.

The TAFE subjects you successfully complete may also count towards subjects in a higher education degree at University.

To be eligible for receiving a Credit Transfer, you must:

• Gain admission to the University
• Meet any University requirements on time expired since your TAFE studies and professional body rules about the granting of credit; and
• Meet any University requirements on the level of your achievement in your TAFE studies and subjects required to be completed.

Articulation

Articulation the name given to a pathway when you move from TAFE to Uni, or Uni to TAFE, and receive credits for some or all of the subjects you have already completed. Students who take advantage of this pathway are sometimes called articulating students.

Dual Awards

Dual awards are offered when a TAFE and a university cooperate to integrate a complementary TAFE Diploma and a higher education undergraduate degree. The two courses are studies sequentially which allows the student to exit with two credentials after four years of study, depending on the length of the higher education course. There are also Certificate IV courses offered at GippsTAFE that offer a dual qualification.

GippsTAFE offers dual awards in conjunction with Monash University Gippsland Campus in the following fields:

• Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Accounting
• Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing & Editing)

More dual awards are currently being developed.

Guaranteed pathways

Guaranteed pathways provide a guaranteed place in the destination course, provided they meet the standards of performance specified in the pathway.

Customised pathways

Customised pathways are negotiated for a specific group of students or an individual student. Customised pathways may incorporate components from different courses and are usually developed to meet the specific learning or vocational needs of groups or individuals.