Build your literacy and numeracy skills.
This entry-level course has been designed to assist you in improving your literacy and numeracy skills in order to build confidence, re-engage with learning and pathway into further education. This course is built around a flexible strength-based framework, allowing you to pursue your interests and incorporate your own life experiences into your learning.
Using a combination of structured teaching and unstructured learning activities, you will build your skills in reading text and completing forms, giving and receiving verbal instructions and feedback, basic mathematics, teamwork, problem-solving and meeting timeframes.
This course is available at other campus locations upon request.
Throughout this course, you will gain skills in:
- Reading formatted text and completing simple forms
- Giving and receiving verbal instructions and feedback
- Basic mathematics
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving
- Working to timeframes
- You left mainstream education early
- You are an adult returning to lifelong learning
- English is your second language
- You have no or limited employment experience
Not all units and study modes are offered at all campuses. Please check with your local campus.
Core
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|
| VU22342 | Identify learning objectives |
| VU22343 | Engage with short simple texts for personal purposes |
| VU22344 | Engage with short simple texts for learning purposes |
| VU22345 | Engage with short simple texts for employment purposes |
| VU22348 | Create short simple texts for personal purposes |
| VU22349 | Create short simple texts for learning purposes |
| VU22350 | Create short simple texts for employment purposes |
| VU22352 | Recognise numbers and money in simple, highly familiar situations |
| VU22353 | Recognise, give and follow simple and familiar directions |
| VU22354 | Recognise measurements in simple, highly familiar situations |
| VU22355 | Recognise shape and design in simple, highly familiar situations |
This qualification prepares you for entry-level roles in the workplace and to pathway into higher level training.
For more information about job and career pathways, visit JobOutlook or Jobs and Skills WA.
On Campus
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|
Tuition fee* |
Resource fee |
Total fee |
|
General |
$47.25 |
$51.20 |
$98.45 |
|
Concession |
$47.25 |
$51.20 |
$98.45 |
Our estimated fees are based on:
- Full time study in 2023
- A selection of elective units designed to meet local industry demand for skills (different unit selections will attract different fees)
- For more information regarding eligibility and fees, please visit DTWD website
These fees are estimates only and depend on your eligibility for government funding, concession rates, the units you choose to study or seek to be recognised under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Additional resource, material and/or equipment costs may apply. Visit our Fees and Charges page for more information, including on consumer rights.
Delivery locations and study options
On Campus
| Duration | 1 year |
| When | Date: 2023 |
| Where |
Broome Campus Derby Campus Fitzroy Crossing Campus Halls Creek Campus Karratha Campus Kununurra Campus Pundulmurra Campus Wyndham Campus |