Education Students Mandatory Requirements
Teacher Mandatory Requirements and Checks
See below for lists and links to all of the mandatory requirements UNE students must adhere to before placements are approved, arranged by state or territory of the relevant agency.
NSW
- Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- All Teacher Education Students are responsible to ensure they hold a current/valid Working with Children/Vulnerable People Certificate and that it is appropriate to the State they will be undertaking their Professional Experience Placements within.
- ASCIA anaphylaxis e-training for Australasian schools
- This online anaphylaxis training certificate is valid for two years
- Child Protection Awareness Training (CPAT)
- Induction training only needs to be completed once. A certificate is provided on completion of this training.
- Child Protection Update (CPU)
- Once the CPAT is completed, the Mandatory Child Protection Training or Child Protection Update for non-Department staff must be completed annually.
- COVID-19 Declaration
- A UNE policy that all students must agree to before placements are confirmed
- Department of Education Code of Conduct
- Students must read and agree to the DoE Code of Conduct as part of their mandatory requirements
- PST Registration online form
- Student's who has already completed the current Declaration for Child Related Work Application does not need to complete the new Registration form
- TES only need to complete the form once.
- Please read this step-by-step guide explaining how to complete the new PST Registration form.
- For any other questions about this form, please email PST.Registration@det.nsw.edu.au.
- For IT related questions, please contact EDConnect on 1300 32 32 32, option 5.
- The PST Acknowledgement form - is signed by the Teacher Education Student and School to confirm completion of your mandatory certificates, copies of the following certificates need to be sighted by the school on or before the first day of each professional experience placement in an NSW public school.
- Literacy and Numeracy Tests
- Not applicable to the Bachelor of Education - In-Service Conversion PREX304-6 placements and students studying Early Childhood Education degrees
