Reducing the complexity of the training system and improving accessibility of training to better meet the needs of employers’ and learners’ is a key priority for Skills Ministers in 2021. To help achieve this, the Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC) are requiring that all units, skill sets and qualifications with fewer than 42 enrolments in each of the last three years are reviewed for industry relevance.
Several of the units/qualifications being reviewed as part of the below projects have been identified as meeting the criteria for low enrolments.
The AISC is seeking feedback from industry to confirm whether low enrolment numbers in some qualifications, skill sets and units are an indication of lack of industry need, or whether other reasons exist for low enrolments including reasons that may justify keeping the relevant skills in the formal training system in spite of low enrolment numbers. The AISC will consider industry viewpoints for maintaining these, backed up by evidence of future enrolments as reasons for them to be retained.
Several of the units/qualifications being reviewed as part of the below projects have been identified as meeting this criteria between 2015 – 2019. The AISC will consider industry viewpoints for maintaining these, backed up by evidence of future enrolments as reasons for them to be retained.
For more information and to provide feedback visit the individual project pages below.
Thank you to everybody that provided feedback on the draft qualifications and skills standards that were available for comment in December and January. Final draft versions of the documents will become available again for validation and comment, once all feedback has been considered, including insights about the qualifications and skills standards that are being proposed for deletion below.
Animal Reproduction Project
A qualification in pork production and seven units covering the following skills have been identified as having low enrolments:
- Collecting semen
- Processing and storing semen
- Supervising artificial breeding and embryo transfer programs
- Mating and monitoring the reproduction of alpacas
- Conducting dropped ovary technique procedures for spaying cattle
- Planning, monitoring and evaluating strategies to improve livestock through genetics
- Artificially inseminating poultry
Landscaping Project
The Certificate IV in Landscape and Diploma of Landscape Management, along with one unit in implementing a tree transplanting program and four skill sets in landscape business, design, plant management and professional practice have been identified as having low enrolments.
Parks and Gardens Project
The Certificate IV in Parks and Gardens and Diplimo of Parks and Gardens Management, along with units covering the following skills have been identified as having low enrolments:
- Preparing a gravesite
- Managing parks and reserves
- Developing and implementing a streetscape management plan
