Australian Qualifications Framework Clause Samples

Australian Qualifications Framework. (AQF) The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) provides a comprehensive, nationally consistent yet flexible framework for all qualifications in Australia. A qualification is defined as “formal certification, issued by a relevant approved body, in recognition that a person has achieved learning outcomes or competencies relevant to identified individual, professional, industry or community needs”.

Australian Qualifications Framework. The Australian Qualifications Framework (the AQF) is the national policy for regulated qualifications in Australian education and training. It incorporates the qualifications from each education and training sector into a single comprehensive national qualifications framework. AQF Qualifications AQF Qualifications Referred to in this Agreement as: • Senior Secondary Certificate of Education • Certificate I • AQF I • Certificate II • AQF II • Certificate III • AQF III • Certificate IV • AQF IV • Diploma • AQF V • Advanced Diploma • AQF VI • Associate Degree • Bachelor Degree • Graduate Certificate • Vocational Graduate Certificate • Graduate Diploma • Vocational Graduate Diploma • Master’s Degree • Doctoral Degree The Framework links together all these qualifications and is a highly visible, quality-assured national system of educational recognition, which promotes lifelong learning and a seamless and diverse education and training system. Qualifications certify the knowledge and skills a person has achieved through study, training, work and life experience. The AQF helps all learners, employers and education and training providers to participate and navigate the qualifications system. Under the AQF, learners can start at the level that suits them and then build up as their needs and interests develop and change over time. The Framework assists learners to plan their career progression, at whatever stage they are within their lives and when they are moving interstate and overseas. In this way, the AQF supports national standards in education and training and encourages lifelong learning. The AQF: • provides nationally consistent recognition of outcomes achieved in post-compulsory education; • helps with developing flexible pathways which assist people to move more easily between education and training sectors and between those sectors and the labour market by providing the basis for recognition of prior learning, including credit transfer and work and life experience; • integrates and streamlines the requirements of participating providers, employers and employees, individuals and interested organisations; • offers flexibility to suit the diversity of purposes of education and training; • encourages individuals to progress through the levels of education and training by improving access to qualifications, clearly defining avenues for achievement, and generally contributing to lifelong learning; • encourages the provision of more and higher quality vocationa...