Student Handbook
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STUDENT HANDBOOK gotafe.vic.edu.au 1 2 CONTENTS Campuses 4- 7 Student Welfare Unit 9 - 13 GOTAFE A-Z 14 - 27 Contacts 31 IMPORTANT NAMES AND NUMBERS TO REMEMBER COURSE COORDINATOR TEACHER Name: Name: Email: Email: Ph: Ph: STUDENT WELFARE UNIT CONTACT PERSON CONTACT PERSON Name: Name: Email: Email: Ph: Ph: 3 CAMPUSES MACKELLAR STREET CHURCH STREET SMYTHE STREET SAMARIA ROAD HANNAH STREET BENALLA STREET BRIDGE STREET SALISBURY STREET CARRIER STREET RAILWAY PLACE NUNN STREET COSTER STREET ARUNDEL STREET Benalla Campus Samaria Road, Benalla The Benalla Campus is a modern building with excellent facilities including Clinical Skills Laboratories with patient simulation for our Health students. GOULBOURN VALLEY HWY WALLIS STREET ST PRESIDENT HIGH STREEET HIGH STREEET BUTLER STREEET ELIZABETH STREET WALLIS STREET BISHOP STREEET TRISTAN STREEET TALLAROOK STREET CRAWFORD STREEET CRAWFORD SeymourWILLIAM STREEET Campus WALLIS STREETWallis Street, Seymour Seymour Campus is located in the heart of STATIONSeymour STREEET and is easily accessed via regular train and bus services. Students benefit from a modern environment with access to the latest technology and enjoy a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. 4 D A O R D R O F D N A S T E E R T S G N I N W O R B MASON STREET SHANLEY STREET R D E S I R P R E T N E D A O R E N O T Wangaratta Regional Study Centre Tone Road, Wangaratta GRAVEL PIT ROAD The Wangaratta Regional Study Centre is a world class facility developed in partnership with Charles Sturt University (CSU). This facility caters to the needs of the animal science, agriculture, equine, horticulture and viticulture industries. KNIGHT STREET MIDDLETON STREET SKENE STREET SKENE CORIO STREET CORIO NIXON STREET MAUDE STREET MAUDE FRYERS STREET HIGH STREET VAUGHAN STREET E ARAD P PURCELL STREET AY LW RAI ROAD GEORGES ST WELSFORD STREET WELSFORD SOBRAON STREET HAYES STREET WYNDHAM STREET WYNDHAM Fryers Street Campus Fryers Street, Shepparton Located in the heart of Shepparton, the Fryers Street campus is the administrative hub of the Institute. The Campus also boasts world class facilities that reflect real life situations for students including a Day Spa & Hair Salon, Library, Commercial Kitchen, Bakery and Restaurant, plus Automotive and Engineering workshops. 5 DOCKER STREET OVENS STREET CUSACK STREET ET RE ST Y LE RY MACKAY STREET NORTON STREET W A R B Y S ROY STREET TR E Docker StreetET Campus T E E Docker Street, Wangaratta R T S Y R R E Wangaratta’s Docker Street Campus P is the hub of training in the North East region. It houses a training restaurant and offers students a friendly, relaxed study atmosphere with a central area for students including Cafeteria and Library. D A O R P WANGANUI ROAD GOLF DRIVE WHELLER ROAD KITTLES ROAD NUMURKAH ROAD GOLF DRIVE PARKSIDE DRIVE RUDD ROAD William Orr CampusPACKHAM STREET D ULEVAR THE BO Wanganui Road, Shepparton William Orr is a 120 hectare property on the outskirts of Shepparton. The campus is named after the William Orr homestead, an historic building constructed in 1896 and still in use today. It is the site for Agriculture, Horticulture, Building, Plumbing and NCDE programs. This campus includes programs run by Shepparton TEC. 6 Werribee Campus Terang Campus 3 Research Close, Werribee 7161 Princes Highway, Terang The Werribee Campus offers the The NCDE in Western Victoria is latest in food processing facilities. co-located at DemoDAIRY Student accommodation support near Terang. the ability for students to learn onsite. Leongatha Campus Warragul Campus Shop 4, 9 Peart Street, Leongatha 71 Willis Street, Warragul A primary focus of the National Warragul and the surrounding area Centre for Dairy Education is noted for dairy farming, other (NCDE) in Leongatha is the highly niche agriculture and producing successful Apprenticeship and highly acclaimed gourmet foods. Traineeship programs The NCDE in Warragul is located in Agriculture. close to the centre of town and within walking distance of the train station. 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which our GOTAFE campuses site. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. We also acknowledge and pay our respects to the many Aboriginal people who have a connection to country outside of our regions. WELCOME As a new or returning student, we would like to welcome you to GOTAFE. We believe this will be a year filled with opportunity and excitement for the TAFE sector in Victoria. The Victorian Government under its Skills First initiative sets out the framework for a strong, reliable TAFE sector that provides high quality education and training for you to develop the skills that you need and employers want. As we move into this new era of skill development for the jobs of today and tomorrow, Vocational Education and Training (VET) is front and centre on the world stage. We are confident of the product and services provided to you; we are currently undergoing the stringent assessment process of CRICOS to deliver the same high quality skills to international students across the world. It is our promise that we will work with you to ensure you are provided the highest quality education and training and that you have access to the services required to complete a qualification in your chosen industry. 8 STUDENT • Student or study related issues • Time management and WELFARE goal setting • Mental health issues such as UNIT depression and anxiety GOTAFE provides a number of • Promotion of Health services to assist you throughout and Wellbeing your educational journey. From • Other issues or the very first thought of taking general concerns on study as a career pathway into your dream job, or may be Counselling is a free and confidential a career change, promotion or service for advancement. For assistance with GOTAFE students. career research, guidance with your resume, finding help with If things are not going the way you paying education expenses or would like, why not see one of getting help with issues which are our Counsellors? stopping you from studying; we The Counsellor can help you find have the support and services you options of your choice and empower need. you to solve your own problems. Talking to a Counsellor is not a COUNSELLING sign of weakness - it means taking Sometimes life can be difficult and a positive step toward coping with nothing seems to be working out. whatever is troubling you. It can feel even worse when we AVAILABILITY don’t have anyone to talk to about our problems. Counselling is the Counsellors aim to be available process of guiding you during a on campus, or by phone, if they stage of life when reassessments or are unable to see or talk to you decisions have to be made about immediately, please leave a yourself and your life course. We message and they will get back to are not experts in your life, but you at the next available time. You we can help you explore and open also have access to E-Counselling up other possibilities to do things within Moodle, where you can differently or look at alternatives or send a confidential message and a Counsellor will respond within the other options. next available or same business day. WHAT TYPES OF PROBLEMS If you are not able to access a CAN COUNSELLORS HELP Counsellor immediately or need counselling advice after hours, you WITH? can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 (24 Counsellors can help you with a hrs a day, 7 days per week). wide range of problems and issues. CONFIDENTIALITY If the Counsellor cannot help you, then they will refer you to another Whatever you say to the staff service that can help. in the Student Welfare Unit remains confidential, unless you Counsellors are available to talk to or somebody else is in danger, you about: then your confidentiality may be • Personal or family issues broken. You will be informed and empowered around any breach of • Relationship issues confidentiality under our duty • Grief and loss issues of care. • Work related issues 9 If you are referred onto another any disruptions, however things service, or have been seeing may come up that disrupt even the another health professional and greatest of well thought out plans. you want information to be given Our Student Welfare Unit provides or received, then you must provide you with a number of flexible, written permission for either party reliable, caring and kind support before any information exchange. that are confidential, private and We may also ask for personal free, to support you while you information where we think we weather life’s unexpected storms to can offer you extra assistance, such assist you to complete your goals. as “Do you have a disability?” We respect this personal information ACCESS & EQUALITY and keep it safe in line with state and national privacy and storage Access to education and training safety regulations. We DO NOT hand must be equal for all participants. this information onto marketing Services should be available to companies. We have obligations to everyone who is entitled to them maintain the individual’s privacy in and should be free from any form accordance with the Commonwealth of discrimination, irrespective Privacy Act 1988 and the of a person’s country of birth, Information Privacy Act 2000. language, culture, race or religion, gender, sexuality or social status. GOTAFE has numerous policies and E-COUNSELLING procedures developed and delivered To meet the support needs of on the basis of fair treatment of students who aren’t studying on students, staff and visitors. a GOTAFE campus or live near a Where literacy language & campus with counselling staff, numeracy (LLN) levels are identified GOTAFE has e-Counselling in place as being lower than the specified to provide support and assistance.