Every Queensland student needs a Senior Education and Training plan in Year 10. Most are built in a spreadsheet during one interview, by a guidance officer covering two hundred students in a term. This does the work first, so the conversation can be about the student.
The obligation is real and the documentation has to exist. The time to do it properly does not.
So a plan gets written that says the student wants to work in health, or in trades, and nobody finds out which qualification that needs, what it costs, whether the subjects line up, or whether anyone in the area is hiring.
The plan is filed. Two years later the student picks something else anyway.
Before the interview, the student answers seven questions in about three minutes. They get a real pathway back, not a personality type.
The guidance officer opens one screen with all of that on it. The interview becomes a conversation about whether it is right, instead of thirty minutes of research done out loud.
A Queensland student can begin a school based apprenticeship or traineeship while still at school. They are paid, the qualification counts toward their QCE, and they leave school already employed and part qualified.
Most students never find out, because it needs an employer and nobody has time to go and find one.
Where a student's pathway suits it, we flag it and we go and find the employer. The student is introduced by name. There is no cost to the school or the family.
How many toward apprenticeships, VET, university and straight to work. By year level, across the whole cohort, updated as plans are completed.
Counted from the plans themselves. If forty students need a subject you run one line of, you find out before the timetable is set rather than after.
Who has a plan, who has signed it, who is outstanding. The documentation exists as a by product rather than a separate job.
The plan belongs to the student, not to us and not to the school. They keep it when they leave, and it keeps working.
If they change their mind in Year 12, it recalculates. If they finish and want to enrol, every provider is already compared. If they want work first, the pathway is still there when they come back at twenty three.
The student controls what the school can see, and can switch it off. No student is made discoverable to an employer by a school, and we do not put a student forward for work. Those parts apply to adults who have chosen them.
One annual fee for each year level you run it with. Most schools start with Year 10, because that is where the SET Plan obligation sits, and add Year 11 and 12 once they have seen the cohort report.
Nothing is charged per student and nothing is ever charged to a family.
If a student enrols with a training provider or signs an apprenticeship, the provider or the employer pays us, not the school and not the student. That is how we keep the fee to the school low, and it is why we have no reason to push anyone toward a course.
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Tell us roughly what you are trying to work out and we will give you a straight answer, including if the answer is that we are not the right fit.
Run it with a single year level for a term. At the end you get the cohort report and the completion record, and you decide whether it saved anyone any time.
If it did not, we will say so and there is nothing to cancel.