This page provides you with the information you need to apply for registration as a teacher in Victoria.

1. To gain registration with the Institute, an applicant will need to hold:

• Four years of approved tertiary study, including an approved course of primary or secondary teacher education, or
•  An approved Certificate of Proficiency/Completion in a trade together with:
   - relevant industrial experience such that the period of apprenticeship and the industrial experience totals not less than eight years; and
  - an approved trade technician course or an approved equivalent program of post-apprenticeship studies; and
  - an approved course of teacher education (which may include ii), or
• An approved Certificate of Technology, together with a minimum of six years of approved industrial experience and an approved course of secondary teacher education.
  

2. In limited and extraordinary circumstances the Institute may register an applicant as a teacher who does not meet these criteria with permission to teach. For more information, go to Categories of registration/Permission to teach.

3. Under the terms of the Mutual Recognition (Victoria) Act 1998 and the Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997, the Institute is required to register a person who is registered to practise as a teacher in any other participating State or Territory or in New Zealand. For more information, go to I am already registered in another Australian State or Territory, or New Zealand.

All prospective applicants for registration should read the Qualification for Teacher Registration Policy 2012 (PDF - 96  KB).

All persons applying after 1 April 2012 will be subject to the 2012 policy.