"An accelerated curriculum which includes integrated projects, special interest classes, community service, and work-related experiences"

Applications are individually considered on a range of appropriate criteria and work-related experience and are particularly welcome from mature students.

The VCAL gives students practical work-related experience, as well as literacy and numeracy skills and the opportunity to build personal skills that are important for life and work.

Moreover, the law requires that administrators have high school diplomas and two years of college or work-related experience, that they complete training courses required by the certification board and that they pass any examination to be determined by the board.