Home education

If you live in Victoria and your child is between 6 and 17 years old, you can register for home education with the VRQA.

You can start home education at the beginning of the year your child turns 6 or by their 6th birthday.

Home schooling can take many forms, including:

• one or more parents educating their child
• groups of home schooling students coming together for short periods
• attending excursions and activities in the community
• using a tutor for individual subjects, for example tutoring in maths.

Attendance at a ‘quasi’ or unregistered school is not home schooling. An unregistered school typically:

• has staff employed to deliver instruction (parents are usually not present for their child’s learning)
• operates away from the home base or online
• provides instruction across all or many of the 8 learning areas, for example instruction is provided in maths, English, science, history and geography
• operates during normal school hours.

The VRQA Home schooling policy defines how we regulate home education. It guides how we work with parents and other organisations, such as registered schools.