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  • National Training Packages: a new curriculum framework for vocational education and training in Australia

    Author(s)
    Wheelahan, Leesa Mary
    Carter, Richard
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Wheelahan, Leesa M.
    Year published
    2001
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    National training packages have become the mandated framework for course delivery in Australia’s vocational education and training sector. Each training package contains: qualifications that can be issued, industry-derived competencies , and assessment guidelines but do not contain an endorsed curriculum component or learning outcomes. All public and private vocational education and training providers must use training packages, or industry endorsed competencies in cases where they do not exist, if they are to receive public funding for their programs. This article describes the operation of Australia’s national training ...
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    National training packages have become the mandated framework for course delivery in Australia’s vocational education and training sector. Each training package contains: qualifications that can be issued, industry-derived competencies , and assessment guidelines but do not contain an endorsed curriculum component or learning outcomes. All public and private vocational education and training providers must use training packages, or industry endorsed competencies in cases where they do not exist, if they are to receive public funding for their programs. This article describes the operation of Australia’s national training packages and considers some of their strengths and weaknesses, many of which may be shared by similar systems elsewhere. Argues that training packages may result in poorer student learning outcomes, and that they may threaten the end of effective credit transfer between the vocational education and training and higher education sectors. Suggests that national training packages are not a good model for other countries and that Australia’s current vocational education and training policy needs to be reviewed.
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    Journal Title
    Education + Training
    Volume
    43
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005755
    Subject
    Education
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58362
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