Training package development handbook guidelines

GUIDELINES: QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK
CONTENTS
GUIDELINES: QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK ................................................................. 3
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................................3
1. Advice on Training Package pathways .....................................................................................................3
1.1 Before commencing training ...............................................................................................................3
1.2 During training.....................................................................................................................................5
1.3 After training .......................................................................................................................................5
1.4 Articulation, pathways and recognition by professional bodies .........................................................6
2. Australian Apprenticeships........................................................................................................................9
3. Australian Qualification Framework alignment ......................................................................................9
4. Coding and titling for qualifications........................................................................................................10
4.1 Coding and titling maintenance for qualifications.............................................................................10
5. Contextualisation of qualifications ..........................................................................................................12
6. Credit transfer and articulation...............................................................................................................12
7. Employability Skills Summaries..............................................................................................................12
8. Importing qualifications ...........................................................................................................................13
9. Mandatory text..........................................................................................................................................13
10. Mapping of qualifications....................................................................................................................13
11. Packaging qualifications—models and issues to consider.................................................................14
11.1 Core‐only model ................................................................................................................................15
11.2 Core and electives model ..................................................................................................................15
11.3 Core and specialisation model...........................................................................................................16
11.4 Core, specialisation and electives model...........................................................................................17
11.7 Electives‐only model..........................................................................................................................18
11.5 Weighting systems.............................................................................................................................19
11.6 Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) ...........................................................................................19
11.7 Access and equity ..............................................................................................................................20
11.8 OHS....................................................................................................................................................20
11.9 Environmental issues.........................................................................................................................20
12. Pre-requisite units of competencies ....................................................................................................20
12.1 Effect of pre‐requisites in qualifications............................................................................................22
13. Skill Sets ................................................................................................................................................24
13.1 Definition...........................................................................................................................................24
13.2 Identifying Skill Sets in Training Packages .........................................................................................24
13.3 Skill Set design ...................................................................................................................................24
13.4 Examples of Skill Sets in Training Packages .......................................................................................25
13.5 Statements of Attainment.................................................................................................................27
14. Specialisations in qualifications...........................................................................................................28
14.1 Units of competency used in more than one qualification ...............................................................28
GuidelinesQualFrameworks_V3_June 2010 V3 June 2010
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