Appendix 2 – Other options for completing Year 10 and further education

Completion of Year 10 in the special circumstance of apprenticeship or traineeship

The Act provides for an equivalent of Year 10 to be completed by undertaking a full-time apprenticeship or traineeship.

Children who are registered for home schooling and want to complete a full-time apprenticeship or traineeship must have completed Year 9 and be a minimum of 15 years of age.

If a home schooled child who is not yet 17 years of age has a signed full-time apprenticeship or traineeship contract, the parent may apply to NESA for exemption from the child having to be registered for home schooling, or enrolled in and attend school, whilst the child is undertaking the full-time apprenticeship or traineeship. An application for exemption in these circumstances is assessed by an Authorised Person in discussion with the parent. A copy of the signed full-time apprenticeship or traineeship contract and a training plan proposal is required.

Details of the application process can be found in the Guidelines for Equivalent and Alternative courses.

Higher School Certificate

A parent may seek enrolment of a child at school at any time. It is up to the enrolling school to determine whether a child who has completed Year 10 by home schooling registration is eligible to undertake a Higher School Certificate and any requirements for that award.

Higher School Certificate by self-tuition

A home schooled child may sit HSC examinations by self-tuition.

Self-tuition students may select courses from a limited range of NESA syllabuses with HSC examinations that can be undertaken as a self-tuition student.

Self-tuition students are eligible for a Higher School Certificate Results Notice which may be used for calculation of the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). However, they are not eligible for an HSC.

Whilst the requirements for home schooling registration and eligibility as a self-tuition student are separate, there may be some overlap depending on the Year 11/12 pattern of study.

Information about self-tuition is available by contacting NESA’s Student Records on (02) 9367 8001 or by email records@nesa.nsw.edu.au.

University

Children who have been home schooled may be eligible for University entrance.

Advice about entry pathways should be sought from the particular university, the University Admissions Centre and/or Open University.