Business, Enterprise & Technology
Business Innovation - 1BNV10 & 2BNV20
In Business Innovation, students develop the knowledge, skills, and understandings to engage in business contexts in the modern world. In a time when design-led companies outperform other companies, students are immersed in the process of finding and solving customer problems or needs through design thinking and using assumption-based planning tools. The customer is at the centre of the innovation process and the generation of viable business products, services, and processes. Integral to learning through finding and solving complex, dynamic, real-world problems is the opportunity for students to work collaboratively. Working together, students are encouraged to build up ideas. Students consider how digital and emerging technologies may present opportunities to enhance business models and analyse the responsibilities and impacts of proposed business models on global and local communities.
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Stage 2 Assessment (Stage 1 Assessment mirrors the requirements of Stage 2)
| School-based Assessment | Weighting |
| Business Skills | 40% |
| Business Model | 30% |
| External Assessment | |
| Business Plan and Pitch | 30% |
Design and Technology - Industry & Entrepreneurial Solutions - 1IES10 & 2IES20
In Design, Technology and Engineering, students use the design process to engineer solutions for the development of products or systems. Design, Technology and Engineering has four contexts: digital communication solutions, industry and entrepreneurial solutions, material solutions, and robotic and electronic systems.
Design, Technology and Engineering: Entrepreneurial Solutions allows students to design solutions to meet industry requirements, or the invention of an entrepreneurial product that meets a need or solves a problem. This could be achieved using design programs such as computer-aided design to develop prototypes or products. Students demonstrate knowledge and skills associated with systems, processes and materials appropriate for the prototype and final solution.
Students may choose two Design, Technology and Engineering subjects and still meet NTCET and ATAR requirements.
Stage 1 Topics
- Investigation and Analysis of existing design solutions that solve problems
- Design Development and Planning of solutions like automotive, aerospace, architectural or maritime design products
- Solution creation using CAD / CAM software, model making processes or prototyping
- Evaluation of a solutions function in relation to a specific target audience
Stage 2 Topics
- Investigation and Analysis of existing design solutions that solve problems
- Design Development and Planning of solutions like automotive, aerospace, architectural or maritime design products
- Solution creation using CAD / CAM software, model making processes or prototyping
- Evaluation of a solutions function in relation to a specific target audience
Year 12 Assessment (Stage 1 Assessment mirrors those of Stage 2)
| School-based Assessment | Weighting |
| Specialised Skills Task | 20% |
| Design Process and Solution | 50% |
| External Assessment | |
| Resource Study | 30% |
Digital Communications Solutions - 1DCS10 & 2DCS20
Design, Technology and Engineering: Digital Communication Solutions allows students to design solutions to use symbols, signs, speech, light, images, sound or other data to design and make products that communicate information. Students produce outcomes that demonstrate the knowledge and skills associated with manipulation of digital communication media.
Students may choose two Design, Technology and Engineering subjects and still meet NTCET and ATAR requirements.
Stage 1 Topics
- Investigation and Analysis of existing design solutions that solve problems
- Design Development and Planning of solutions like web design, film design, graphic or desktop publishing design products
- Solution creation using digital software, model making or prototyping
- Evaluation of a solutions function in relation to a specific target audience
Stage 2 Topics
- Investigation and Analysis of existing design solutions that solve problems
- Design Development and Planning of solutions like web design, film design, graphic or desktop publishing design products
- Solution creation using digital software, model making or prototyping
- Evaluation of a solutions function in relation to a specific target audience
Year 12 Assessment (Stage 1 Assessment mirrors the requirements of Stage 2)
| School-based Assessment | Weighting |
| Specialised Skills Task | 20% |
| Design Process and Solution | 50% |
| External Assessment | |
| Resource Study | 30% |
Workplace Practices (CAP only) - 1WPS20 & 2WPC20
Workplace Practices is a subject offered only to students in the Career Acceleration Programme (CAP).
Students develop knowledge, skills and understanding of the nature, type and structure of the workplace. They learn about the value of unpaid work to society, future trends in the world of work, workers’ rights and responsibilities and career planning. Students can undertake learning in the workplace and develop and reflect on their capabilities, interests and aspirations, The subject may include the undertaking of vocational education and training (VET) as provided under the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). ‘Work’ is considered in its broadest sense, and is defined as all fields of paid and unpaid activity.
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Industry & Work Knowledge
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Industry & Work Knowledge
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| Vocational Learning or Vocational Education and Training | Vocational Learning |
| Vocational Education and Training (VET) |
Stage 2 Assessment (Stage 1 Assessment mirrors the requirements for Stage 2)
| School-based Assessment | Weighting |
| Folio | 25% |
| Performance | 25% |
| Reflection | 20% |
| External Assessment | |
| Investigation | 30% |