Pre-accredited programs
Pre-accredited programs are short modular courses designed for learners to gain confidence and skills. They focus on creating pathways to nationally accredited training or employment.
Pre-accredited training has an emphasis on those learners who have not achieved Year Nine or an equivalent qualification. It addresses the particular needs of those adults who have experienced barriers to education in the past and find it difficult to undertake accredited programs as their first step back into education and training.
Pre-accredited programs
- Adult Literacy and Numeracy - Training in literacy and numeracy skills including teaching English language to people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, for example English as a Second Language (ESL).
- Employment Skills - Training in basic skills to support work or further learning, such as communications, teamwork and problem solving, job search skills.
- Vocational Programs - Vocational education that assists people with skills acquisition required for specific occupations to start work, return to work or to change jobs.
Pre-accredited training funding
To be considered for pre-accredited training funding Learn Local organisations must satisfy the following criteria, which are consistent with the Vocational Education and Training (VET) Student Statistical Data Collection Guidelines:
- a locally designed program; or
- a subject-only program based on: a unit of competency from a Training Package or a module from a nationally recognised accredited course.
While pre-accredited training may draw on the content of accredited programs, pre-accredited training must not be:
- linked in AVETMISS reporting to a Training Package Qualification or a nationally recognised accredited module or course by use of a nationally recognised accredited course or module code
- marketed as accredited training. The names and codes of advertised courses or modules must be local
- assessed for the purpose of award or credit.
Learn Local organisations should use the A-Frame to plan, document and ensure a high standard of pre-accredited training. ACFE may request evidence of program planning. From 2011:
- use of the A-frame will be mandatory
- programs will have a minimum duration of 20 program or course hours
- student contact hours will be purchased at the fixed rate of $7.19 per hour.