Certificates

Certificates I through to IV prepare candidates for both employment and further education and training. Certificates I and II are largely new qualifications recognising basic vocational skills and knowledge and Certificates III and IV largely replace the outdated category of trade certificates.

Certificates I through to IV recognise skills and knowledge that meet nationally endorsed industry/enterprise competency standards as agreed for those qualifications by the relevant industry, enterprise, community or professional group; include preparatory access and participation skills and knowledge such as:

• literacy and numeracy;
  
• communication skills;
  
• working in teams;
  
• workplace technology; and
  
• industry specific competencies, of increasing complexity and
• personal accountability at each level of the Certificate qualification;

and may be gained through a wide range of pathways, including:

• Australian Apprenticeships (including traineeships);
• work-based and/or school/institution-based training; and
• recognition of prior learning (which may include training programs or an accumulation of short courses).

Diplomas

Diplomas and Advanced Diplomas prepare candidates for self-directed application of skills and knowledge based on fundamental principles and/or complex techniques. These qualifications recognise capacity for initiative and judgment across a broad range of technical and/or management functions.

The Advanced Diploma is a more specialised qualification and signifies skill and knowledge of a greater complexity and a higher level of personal accountability than is required at a Diploma level.

Diplomas and Advanced Diplomas may be gained through a wide range of pathways, and programs of varying lengths, according to which education and training sector issues the qualification.

Qualifications available through WVI

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