Can I start my training in high school?

Senior high school students are able to start some apprenticeship trades or complete a traineeship qualification while at school. As a school based apprentice/trainee, you'll be paid while being trained - and both your on-the-job and off-the-job training can contribute to your HSC. What's more, since you'll already have a job and have started your training, you'll be qualified quicker.

If you are a school based apprentice, you will go to school and work part-time and do the first year of the four year apprenticeship. You will complete the second, third and fourth year after you leave school.  Some trades are only a 3 year term so you will complete the second and third year after leaving school.

If you are a school based trainee, you will go to school and work part-time and complete your formal training at TAFE or with a similar organisation, or even your own school, by the end of your HSC year.