Relevant Training Policies
AQF National Policy and Guidelines on Credit Arrangements, (Final Draft, May 2009) This policy simply means we have to allow permissible transferable credit. It can be by mutual recognition, acceptance of equivalent units, or by RPL. It authorises a transfer credit policy that is more generous than the confines of the AQTF. Link to whole document.
Teach-out requirements for superceded quals and units:
ACAS can only deliver currently endorsed Training Packages and currently accredited courses. We must manage the transition of courses and individual units:
- from superseded Training Packages within 12 months of their publication on the national register
- from superseded accredited courses
ACAS must ensure that students are not enrolled in qualifications/courses that adversely affect their opportunities for employment and/or future study pathways.
Course supervisors must:
- give timely and adequate advice to students if the qualification or course in which they are enrolled is to be discontinued
- give them the opportunity to transfer to replacement courses, unless it would genuine disadvantage them from gaining a qualification or statement of attainment.
From the date that a replacement qualification is published on the national register:
- ACAS has 12 months to apply to get it on scope and commence enrolments.
- ACAS may continue to deliver training and assessment services, and issue awards, to current students of the superseded qualification who would be genuinely disadvantaged if required to transfer to the replacement qualification for up to 18 months. Generally speaking, students who do not complete in that time must be transferred to the replacement qualification.
During the teach-out period, we must not enrol students and/or commence delivery in the superseded qualification.
Source: ASQA:Business rule: Transition & teach-out
RPL National Principles These national principles add little or nothing to the AQTF and are basically designed to be a common framework for all sectors.
The most interesting new idea is that it permits RTOs to give "unspecified credit, resulting in the student being required to complete fewer subjects, modules or competencies (for example, by exempting a student from undertaking elective units)" (See "Forms of Credit" dot-point 3.)
Ministerial Policy Statement: Vocational Education and Training for School Students in Western Australia (signed 18.0.8.05, issued 16 Sep. 05) based on the following legislation: School Education Act 1999, Curriculum Council Act 1997, Vocational Education and Training Act 1997, Industrial Training Act 1974.
Western Australian VET Enrolment Data Standard. Western Australian Department of Education And Training: Vet Enrolment Statistics Unit (Version 5.1 February 2004). We are now required to provide the government with enrolment information if we get Department funding in any way, run VET in schools, or under the Adult Community Education umbrella. Note: Schools provide that information directly as part of their normal Curriculum Council reporting.