Approved curriculum is defined as curriculum taught to early childhood or school aged students in settings requiring registration – early childhood education, primary, secondary, special education. 

Early childhood education

• Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework
• Early Years Learning Framework.

School foundation – year 10

• Victorian Curriculum
• International Baccalaureate.

School years 11-12

• Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), including VCE Vocational Major
• Vocational Education and Training (VET)
• School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships (SBAT)
• International Baccalaureate (IB).

An approved curriculum may also include

• any other curriculum or program approved by the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (VCAA) or Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which is to be delivered in Victorian schools
• any element, in a non-government school approved as the compulsory educational program that is not otherwise included by the above programs
• an overseas curriculum delivered at a school registered with the VRQA as a ‘Specific Purpose’ school (e.g. the Japanese School of Melbourne is an example)
• a program that is comparable to an Australian Year 12 course as recognised by an Australian legislative framework (e.g. Monash University Foundation Year).