Automotive trade apprenticeships - credit towards training arrangements

Credit towards automotive trade apprenticeships - A vocational training guideline.

Issued: 27 April 2009

Pursuant to Section 4 of the Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001, the following guideline is issued in relation to automotive trade vocations.

The guideline shall apply to the functions relating to the making of a Vocational Training Direction under Section 10 of the Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001, when dealing with an application to establish an apprenticeship in any of the recognised trade vocations listed below.

The guideline shall be exercised by the Vocational Training Tribunal or the Commissioner for Vocational Training or the Commissioner’s delegate(s).

Guideline

1. An applicant apprentice who has successfully completed a trade qualification relevant to a recognised automotive trade vocation listed below and who is a party to an apprenticeship training contract in that vocation, will be accorded two years credit towards the nominal term of that apprenticeship and an exemption from the formal training component of the apprenticeship. The intention in the guideline is that this credit will occur at the start of the apprenticeship.
   List of trade vocations:
   • Automotive (Automotive Parts Interpreter Specialist)
   • Automotive (Brake Mechanic)
   • Automotive (Electrical)
   • Automotive (Engine Reconditioning)
   • Automotive (Heavy Vehicle Mechanical) (Agricultural)
   • Automotive (Heavy Vehicle Mechanical) (Industrial)
   • Automotive (Heavy Vehicle Mechanical) (Road Transport)
   • Automotive (Light Vehicle - Mechanical)
   • Automotive (Marine Mechanical)
   • Automotive (Motor Cycle Mechanical)
   • Automotive (Panel Beating)
   • Automotive (Transport Trimming)
   • Automotive (Vehicle Body Building)
   • Automotive (Vehicle Painting)
   • Automotive Manufacturing Bus, Truck and Trailer
   • Automotive Mechanical (Forklift Maintenance)
   • Automotive Vehicle Body (Vehicle Glazing).
2. This credit is subject to the applicant apprentice having demonstrated successful completion of the relevant trade qualification by providing appropriate documentary evidence of such completion.
3. If other relevant industry training or experience can be demonstrated by the applicant apprentice, further credit may be applied for by the proponent parties in addition to the credit provided by this guideline.
4. The Commissioner for Vocational Training will consider a request for competency based completion of an apprenticeship established under this guideline when both parties to the apprenticeship support the completion and are satisfied that the apprentice has met all the requirements of the apprenticeship.

Director-General of Education and Training
Managing Director of TAFE NSW