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The Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) is the national quality framework for the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system.
Licensed sites that are using Ausmusic as their RTO will be audited by Ausmusic. It is the responsibility of the coordinator of the program to ensure that their site complies with the Standards for Registered Training Organisations.
Licensed sites that are RTO’s, will be audited by state and territory registering bodies.
The Standards are as follows: The RTO must demonstrate:
- Systems are in place to plan for and provide quality training and assessment across all of its operations.
- That they comply with Commonwealth, State/Territory legislation and regulatory requirements relevant to their operations and ensure that these requirements are integrated into their policies and procedures and that compliance is maintained.
- Effective financial management procedures
- Effective administrative and records management procedures
- That they recognise any qualification issued by other RTO’s
- Access and equity and client service
- Competence in their RTO services
- Assessments that meet the requirements of the endorsed components of the training package.
- Learning and assessment strategies
- That they issue AQF qualifications and Statements of Attainment that meet AQTF requirements.
- Use of national and state/territory logos where appropriate
- Ethical marketing and advertising of training and assessment product and services.
The Ausmusic Training Plans deliver qualifications from the Music Industry Training Package.
There are many variations on how you can deliver each qualification or individual competencies from various certificate levels III into your site. Check out www.ausmusic.com.au for suggestions, or email info@ausmusic.org.au, or ring Ausmusic Head Office (03) 9822 6683.
Remember, we cannot assist you in relation to your state government education requirements. How you record the training package in relation to Boards of Study, or education frameworks, or state/federal arts grants needs to be clarified with that particular body.
The most important requirement for implementation is that you use this Training Plan to deliver the Music Industry Training Package.
Units can be undertaken in any order that works for the approved trainer.
The following is advice only.
If you intend to firstly offer Certificate I and/or II in Music Industry (Foundation), there are a lot of nesting opportunities - i.e. many of the units in Certificate II are also in Certificate III.
Wherever possible, try to complete a project that draws together a group of units. This might be in songwriting project where you would complete Copyright, Songwriting, Plan and Perform for a Demo and Record Sound as a “topic”.
This “grouping” also needs to be considered along with a “balanced” program, where students are getting practical activities along with the theory/business activities.
On-going competencies that require gradual building of skills will need to be running throughout most of the year. For e.g. most sites will be using instrumental specialist on a regular half/full hour basis throughout the year.
Make sure you complete the health & safety modules before students are involved in any worksite.
Please note that the nominal hours for each unit are just that “nominal” Some units may take a little longer to deliver. These hours are not face-to-face, but include projects and research trainees complete in their own time.
The new AQTF requirements to deliver a training package qualification requires the assessors to have completed the 3 assessment units in the Certificate IV in Training & Assessment, plus be competent in the subject to the same level at which is being taught, that is, trainers will need to be competent in this Certificate I in Music Industry (Foundation) to be able to teach under AQTF. This competence can be assessed by Ausmusic using an RPL process. Contact Head Office for further details.
Assessment can be undertaken in various ways- most commonly by observation, by oral, written, project work, role-plays etc. The assessors must be confident that the student is competent in the unit that they are being assessed in.
Remember, you can undertake this program without meeting these trainer qualification requirements, but the students will not receive the national recognition. They will, however, be able to receive an Ausmusic Report, which will outline the units that have been completed, but not according to the AQTF guidelines.
Assessment is managed through the Training Record Books, where trainers can ‘tick-off’ completed skills in each module. Ausmusic is committed to quality assessment processes.
- Throughout the training, students are required to maintain their Student Training Record Books.
- All trainers required to keep 10% of their student’s work each year.
- It is expected that trainers partake in any or all validation of assessment strategies listed below.
- Internal Self Audits will be conducted to confirm appropriate assessments and assessment validation procedure are been undertaken.
- Feedback will be sought from employers involved in work placements as to the appropriate standard of student skills.
- Guest industry speakers are encouraged to review assessments and observe student performance to confirm appropriate standard for assessments, which are to be confirmed by qualified trainers.
- If a trainer is found to be not implementing assessments appropriately they will be given a warning and assistance to rectify issue.
Ausmusic has developed the program and its assessment processes ensuring that they are valid, reliable, flexible and fair.
If you are your own RTO: You will issue the credential. Any licensed site may also add the Ausmusic logo, a logo well recognised by employers, if they wish.
If Ausmusic is your RTO: All enrolments are to be completed online via admin.entertainmentworld.com.au You will need your student’s details with you while undertaking the enrolment process. Students must be enrolled in what they are completing – either a full qualification, competency units, regardless of what they may have already passed or failed.
Certificates, Statement of Attainments, Transcripts and Ausmusic Reports will be produced through this online system based on the information you have input.
Licensed sites are to keep three examples of student’s work for each program undertaken. This is for auditing purposes.
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