Students who experience difficulties with English language are provided support by our student services department. If a student is having difficulty understanding lessons, reading and or submitting written work to an appropriate standard they should be referred to the student services department. Students who are experiencing language, literacy and numeracy difficulties during the course can access support from our trainer or our student support officer.

Victorian College of Education will provide Academic support/ English language support including but not limited to:

    • Study support,
    • Managing study load,
    • Helping students adjust to the learning and assessment system
    • Homework issues
    • Reviewing learner materials with the student
    • Liaising with trainers to arrange the provision of support e.g. extra tuition, materials, exercises, amendments to timetables
    • Arranging access to supplementary reference materials
    • Arranging for supplementary exercises to develop understanding
    • Arranging access to computers
    • Arranging access to modified resources
    • Liaising with assessors to provide opportunities to re-attempt assessments
    • Liaising with assessors for assessment deadlines to be adjusted
    • Providing guidance with organisation/time management skills
    • Negotiating a plan with the student to enable completion of tasks
    • Arranging for the course duration to be extended
    • Arranging catch up classes during non-scheduled class time and/ or holidays
    • Arranging adjustments to the students’ timetable and/ or course schedule
    • Providing opportunities to undertake additional units to catch up
    • Providing guidance with organisation/ time management skills
    • Negotiating a plan with the student to enable completion of tasks
    • Providing and/ or arranging English language support