Using training packages
Using training packages
Implementation guides
Mapping guides for Queensland
Implementing revised packages
Training packages stipulate the skills and knowledge needed to perform effectively in the workplace, but do not prescribe how training to attain those skills and level of knowledge must be delivered.
While training packages are nationally endorsed, the guidelines and policies governing their implementation vary slightly in each state and territory. For example, training package qualifications may be eligible for state government funding arrangements in some states or territories, but not in others.
Implementation guides provide additional general and state-specific information to assist registered training organisations, teachers, trainers and assessors in delivering training. These guides define:
- qualifications to be included in training packages
- registration processes and requirements for training organisations
- instructions on correlating course information from older accredited courses, or earlier versions of the same training package, with the latest endorsed qualifications (mapping)
- timelines for transferring students from old qualifications to new qualifications (transitioning)
- sample training programs
- industry licensing requirements
- contacts and resources
- apprenticeships and/or traineeships that include competencies or qualifications from the training package.
Implementation guides
The national implementation guide website provides information from all states and territories concerning their requirements for implementing training packages.
Implementation guides are being added to the national website progressively as training packages are endorsed or reviewed.
Search for information on packages in the national implementation guide website
Mapping guides for Queensland
Mapping guides can assist trainers, assessors and administrators in understanding how a new training package replaces an earlier curriculum or an earlier training package.
Implementing revised packages
There are changeover requirements for registered training organisations delivering packages which have been reviewed and revised.
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