Individual schools undertake initiatives and programs in the areas of work experience and career planning for the compulsory years. In the post-compulsory years the Curriculum Council recognises student achievement in all VET curriculum and Training Packages. Schools may embed a choice of modules or competencies in appropriate accredited subjects including Tertiary Entrance Subjects. They may also offer modules or competencies outside Curriculum Council subjects for recognition on the Statement of Results providing they are undertaken within the Australian Recognition Framework.

Exploratory curriculum development work is being conducted as part of the Post-compulsory Education Review. One project is testing ways in which vocational learning (knowledge and skills explicitly linked to industry areas and/or underpinning units of competency) and VET studies (units of competency developed off-the-job and through workplace or community-based learning) may be embedded in Courses of Study. These exploratory Courses of Study are course templates based on selected general education outcomes and around which schools will develop teaching, learning and assessment programs. For each outcome a post-compulsory scale of achievement will be used as the key diagnostic, assessment and reporting tool. It will be possible to map the linkage between selected units of competency and some Course of Study outcomes and to position the unit of competency achievement on the scale of achievement for these outcomes.