Complete your school-based apprenticeship or traineeship

Apprenticeships

You won't finish your school-based apprenticeship or traineeship while you are at school, because it takes longer than that. School-based apprenticeships generally take twice as long as a full-time apprenticeship, so you'll need to continue it after graduation.

Find out how to continue your apprenticeship after school.

Traineeships

Depending on the length of your traineeship and when you started it, it's possible to finish while still at school.

You and your employer can start the formal completion process for your school-based traineeship once you:

1. have completed all units of competency in your training plan
2. are competent in the workplace to industry standards (determined by your employer and training organisation)
3. and
3. have worked the required hours, which depends on the nominal term of your traineeship (see table below).

Minimum required hours to complete your school-based traineeship

Nominal term for school-based traineeships	Full-time equivalent nominal term for traineeships	Minimum days/hours of paid work required
2 years (24 months)	1 year (12 months)	50 days / 375 hours
3 years (36 months)	18 months	75 days / 562.5 hours
4 years (48 months)	2 years (24 months)	100 days / 750 hours

Completion process

If you meet the above requirements, follow our process to complete your traineeship.

Students who convert from school-based to part-time or full-time

If you started your traineeship as a school-based trainee but later converted to a part-time or full-time traineeship, you must still meet the above requirements, including minimum paid work hour requirements.

For example

At the beginning of Year 12, Susan starts a school-based child care worker traineeship, which has a nominal term of 4 years (or 2 years full-time equivalent) to complete. Susan doesn't finish her traineeship before graduation so converts to full-time after leaving school.

Three months after leaving school, she's ready to complete. Because some of the traineeship was school-based, she must have worked at least the required 750 hours/100 days of paid employment (refer to table above) before the traineeship can be completed.

Difficulty getting enough hours to complete a traineeship

If you are nearly finished Year 12, have completed your training, but are having trouble meeting the minimum hours above (due to circumstances beyond your control), contact us, at Apprenticeships Info, to discuss. Otherwise you can apply to the Queensland Training Ombudsman for special consideration to complete.

Submit your application by using their online complaint form.