The Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Meat Processing have been revised as part of this project, to support the leadership and management skills industry requires to keep up with strong global and local demands for Australian meat. The meat industry has for some years been used to one qualification being embedded in another as they have seen this as a pathway into higher level qualifications. However, nesting of the Diploma within the Advanced Diploma is no longer allowed, according to the recently revised Standards for Training … Read More

Thanks to your input, the below projects have been validated and have now moved to the finalisation stage. This involves review by the State/Territory Training Authorities, the IRC, the Australian Industry and Skills Committee and State/Territory Ministers. Once endorsed, the new skills standards will be published on training.gov.au and available for RTOs to put on scope. For further information visit the individual project pages.

A reminder that you still have more than ten days to provide feedback on draft skills standards for a range of job roles across food and beverage processing. Over the past ten years, consumers have become increasingly interested in the origins, contents, and packaging of food, driving innovations in traceability, automation, and contaminant control. Your input is sought to capture the ways these industry shifts have impacted skills needs and job roles. Comments on draft units, skill sets and qualifications to … Read More

Industry input is sought to confirm that the draft skills standards for pharmaceutical bioprocessing manufacture and distribution are accurate to current job roles and work practices. The skills described in the draft units are required to produce a range of life-saving and enhancing pharmaceutical products, including vaccines, blood plasma products and gene therapy medicine. We need your help to answer some key questions about the skills standards, including: Whether or not a qualification is needed in this area? Whether references to specific … Read More

The AISC has considered projects that were proposed out of the Annual Update to Skills Forecast submitted earlier this year. As a result, the following projects across the Agriculture, Horticulture, Conservation and Land Management industry have been approved. Please see below for an example of some of the projects approved, in which work will commence in the coming few months. If you are interested in participating as a subject matter expert for any of these skills, please contact us. There will be … Read More

The Amenity Horticulture, Landscaping and Conservation and Land Management IRC reviewed draft recommendations from this project. Issues considered included the nature of the occupation and job roles, RTO delivery and the volume of learning in the units as designed. After further consultation with industry experts, the IRC have decided that more work needs to be undertaken to better describe the skills being trained, ensure that learners have adequate opportunity to gain the require competencies and facilitate the ease of delivery. … Read More

There is still time to validate final draft qualifications, skill sets, and units for a range of job roles across animal care, training, grooming, retail, regulation and animal-assisted services. With demand for services and products to care for Australian pets growing, and use of assistance animals becoming more widespread, it is important that industry has access to skills standards that are up to date and accessible. If you are experienced in pet care and animal training, your input is sought to … Read More

The Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) have approved a number of projects out of the Annual Update to the IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work, which was submitted earlier this year. The projects approved in Animal Care and Management for 2020-2021 are listed below. Work on these projects will commence in the coming few months. If you are interested in participating as a subject matter expert for any of these skills, please contact us. There will be several opportunities to provide … Read More

Thanks to the input of industry throughout this project, the skills standards required to care for some of the world’s most rare and vulnerable animals have been recorded. Validation of the final draft units, skill sets, and qualifications for exhibited animal care and marine wildlife has now been completed. Your feedback during this stage is being used to inform any final updates to the drafts. They will shortly move into the finalisation stage, which involves an edit and equity and … Read More

Pets and assistance animals are highly valued for the role they play in Australian households. Demand for a broader range of services and products to care for these animals, and increased demand for assistance animals, is driving the need for updated skills standards in the areas of pet grooming, animal health care, animal training, assistance animals, companion and therapy animals, and regulation. Final draft qualifications, skill sets, and units that capture these skills are now available for validation. They describe the foundational … Read More

Thank you to those who provided feedback on the nine existing units of compentency that were made available for feedback as part of the Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing Project. Your feedback will help define the skills required to produce a range of life-saving pharmaceutical products, including vaccines, blood plasma products and gene therapy medicine. Your comments are currently being reviewed and used to inform updates to the final drafts, which will be made available for validation shortly. For more information visit the project page.

Increased consumer interest in the origins, contents, and packaging of food are driving the food and beverage processing sector to innovations in traceability, automation, and contaminant control. This has impacted skills needs and job roles in the sector. Thanks to your feedback, the updated skills required by industry are one step closer to being defined. Your comments have highlighted the need to make further major changes to some qualifications and units, and to develop new skill sets and units in certain skills … Read More