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ACT: COAG RPL Initiative 2006 - 2009
Competency Navigator
Developing Appropriate RPL Methods For Individual Clients – Planning Worksheet
E-Portfolios
Frequently Asked Questions on Skills Recognition (RPL) - an East Gippsland Institute brochure
Informal Learning
Promotional Movie on RPL (TAFE NSW)
Recognising non-formal and informal learning: Participant insights and perspectives
Register of Unit Equivalency – BRIT
RPL: an AQTF Auditors Perspective
RPL Assessment Process
RPL Resources Catalogue (DET NSW)
RPL: Your First Step...
Skills First: RPL Assessment Resources
Skills Store: North Western Skills Store
Skills Store Training
Victorian TAFE RPL Network Website Evaluation Report
Western Australia:RPL (Skills Recognition) - an Assessment Resource for VET Practitioners

 

ACT: COAG RPL Initiative 2006 - 2009 (145 KB)

The ACT is to receive matched funding from the Australian Government over three years on a bi-lateral basis for an RPL initiative as part of the COAG initiative to improve the uptake of RPL.

Competency Navigator (783 KB)

Presented to RPLN Meeting 6 August 2007

Wendy Perry from Workforce Blueprint spoke of the Competency Navigator, a web enabled diagnostic tool that collects and analyses information on staff skills and competencies. The user is guided through a series of screens that matches their skills to best fit nationally accredited qualifications.

Developing Appropriate RPL Methods For Individual Clients – Planning Worksheet  (44KB)
Example Planning Worksheet  (49KB)

Tabled at the RPL Network meeting held 7 September 2009.

E-Portfolios

A new report has identified electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) as a key tool to support COAG’s (Council of Australian Governments) RPL (recognition of prior learning) initiative, which aims to build RPL quality and good practice for the vocational education and training (VET) system.

Frequently Asked Questions on Skills Recognition (RPL) - an East Gippsland Institute brochure  (106KB)

A brochure prepared for students by a teacher at East Gippsland Institute of TAFE.

Informal Learning - NCVER Report

This at a glance considers the learning that goes on daily in a variety of everyday contexts: from the workplace to the home, and through technology and the mass media. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, informal learning is by far the most prevalent form of adult learning. This type of learning offers benefits to all age groups and people, including older workers, migrant groups and refugees, and people who are disengaged from learning. It is also of great benefit to small business who lack the resources to formally train staff and plays an important role in the workplace.

Promotional Movie on RPL (TAFE NSW)

This promotional movie about Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) has been made by TAFE NSW. What does RPL mean for individuals, enterprises and VET providers? http://www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au/resources/rpl_video.htm. You may also like to visit the ICVET homepage www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au.

Recognising non-formal and informal learning: Participant insights and perspectives

(NCVER publication) Recognition of prior learning has been a longstanding major policy initiative within the education and training landscape. This report provides insights into how people become aware of their recognition options and explores factors that encourage or inhibit access to recognition of prior learning. This may assist practitioners offering recognition of prior learning services to make changes which could enhance the experience for those people wishing to pursue this pathway.

Register of Unit Equivalency – BRIT  (215KB)

This Register lists all Units (i.e. Units of Competency, Course Modules, VCE and VCAL Units) and bundles of Units where the Course Planning & Accreditation Sub-committee of the BRIT Institute Management Committee has approved equivalency for the purposes of Credit Transfer. Users are responsibility for checking the currency of the information

RPL: an AQTF Auditors Perspective (783 KB)

Sam McCurdy, an AQTF Auditor, looks at evidence and requirements for RPL assessments 2007.

RPL Assessment Process (38 KB)

Tabled at the RPL Network meeting held 7 September 2009.

RPL Resources Catalogue (DET NSW) Acrobat PDF  (6214 KB)

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Resources Catalogue: Linking you to available RPL products and resources in the one directory – DET NSW.

RPL: Your First Step... Acrobat PDF  (1294 KB)

This resource has been developed to help Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) make their RPL processes accessible to a greater diversity of individual and industry clients. The examples detailed in this resource are from the experiences of assessors throughout Australia. Examples in this resource are industry specific to give a real work context but the concepts may be applied across a number of industry and assessment contexts.

Skills First: RPL Assessment Resources

Skills First RPL resources have been developed as part of the Queensland Skills Plan in order to create industry approved, work-based recognition of prior learning tools.

These resources offer an alternative to the portfolios that candidates supply in order to achieve RPL. Such portfolios provide limited opportunities for candidates to demonstrate competence and lack the flexibility to meet client needs.

Skills First RPL resources assist assessors and candidates to participate more fully in RPL by emphasising conversations and demonstrations as valid evidence gathering.

These assessment resources, while an important safety net, are only one part of the potential solution and can be adapted. Assessors themselves need to be skilled, confident and flexible enough to accommodate diversity in candidates while ensuring assessment standards are met.

These resources are provided at no cost to assist the sector with the ongoing improvement of RPL assessment resource development.

Skills Store: North Western Skills Store (313 KB)

Presented to RPLN Meeting 18 June 2007

Wendy Schwedes made a brief presentation about the Skills Store that has been set up by a consortium in the North-western region of which VETASSESS is the lead agent. To date 5 Skills Stores have been set up with another 4 to be set up in 2008 and 4 more in 2009, bringing the total to 13 Skills Stores. OTTE is providing funding for the Skills Stores until 2010 after which the stores will need to be self-sustaining.

Skills Store Training

TAFE Development Centre training events to meet the specific needs of 5 Skills Stores and their network providers.

Staff RPL Journey - Model Process (134 KB)

Tabled at the RPL Network meeting held 7 September 2009.

Victorian TAFE RPL Network Website Evaluation Report Acrobat PDF (144KB)

Western Australia:RPL (Skills Recognition) - an Assessment Resource for VET Practitioners Acrobat PDF (683 KB)

A Western Australian Department of Education & Training supplement to the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)

Page updated 22 September 2009

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