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AQF Qualifications
Certificates I - IV
Certificates I - IV prepare candidates for both employment and further education and training. Certificates I and II are largely new qualifications recognising basic vocational skills and knowledge and Certificates III and IV largely replace the outdated category of trade certificates.
Certificates I - IV:
recognise skills and knowledge that meet nationally endorsed industry/enterprise competency standards as agreed for those qualifications by the relevant industry, enterprise, community or professional group;
include preparatory access and participation skills and knowledge such as:
-literacy and numeracy;
-communication skills;
-working in teams;
-workplace technology; and
-industry specific competencies, of increasing complexity and personal accountability at each level of the Certificate qualification; andmay be gained through a wide range of pathways, including: Australian Apprenticeships (including traineeships); work-based and/or school/institution-based training; and recognition of prior learning (which may include training programs or an accumulation of short courses).
Certificates I - IV recognise achievement of specified national industry competency standards at four AQF levels in a wide variety of trades, industries and enterprises.
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