Course in Initial General Education for Adults

The 22471VIC Course in Initial General Education for Adults is aimed at adults with an intellectual disability, if you are culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), if English is not your first language, or if you are looking to improve and develop your basic language, literacy, numeracy and digital literacy skills. Units are contextualised to include practical activities linked to your local community.

The course provides learners who have low literacy and numeracy skills with the opportunity to build confidence, re-engage with learning and pathway into AQF qualifications.

Your training will focus on:

• Identifying and engaging with short, simple texts (reading and writing)
• Building confidence to read familiar, everyday texts and speak using familiar, everyday words and sentences
• Understanding Australian currency and using money in everyday situations

• Face-to-face
• 400 hours over 40 weeks
• Bendigo and surrounding Central Victoria regions

Assessment may consist of:

• Practical demonstration
• Written answers to questions
• Scenario-based assessments

Eligibility for the SEE Program includes people who are:

• either
  • an Australian citizen or
  • a permanent visa holder or
  • on a provisional or temporary visa with working rights and eligible for the Adult Migrant English Program or
  • a Pacific Australian Labour Mobility visa holder
• and also:
  • aged over 15 years and have left school, and
  • need help with their reading, writing, maths, English language and digital skills.

Courses delivered through SEE are funded by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations