Issuing a Qualification or Statement of Attainment Policy

Purpose

The Issuing of Qualifications Policy describes how Orion ensures that it issues qualifications and statements of attainment for training packages and accredited courses in accordance with the Australian Qualifications Framework.

Principles

• Under no circumstances will a qualification or statement of attainment be issued unless all requirements of the training package or course have been met.

• A systematic approach is used to ensure all evidence of competency is documented completely and effectively as part of the issuing a qualification process.

• AQF qualifications or statement of attainments issued by another RTO can be used by Orion for credit transfer and recognition of prior learning.

Management Approach

Through its student, training and marketing resources Orion places an emphasis on communicating sections of this policy targeted to the particular audience. Internally within Orion a number of business processes and work practices build on this communication to ensure that this policy statement is successfully applied. Most importantly Orion’s training support team will ensure that all requirements mandated by the Australian Skills Quality Authority are met prior to a Qualification or Statement of Attainment being issued.

Qualification Protocol

All Vocational Education and Training Qualifications issued under the Australian Qualifications Framework by Orion Training include the following elements;

• Orion name, logo and national provider number

• Name of person receiving the qualification as provided at enrolment

• Nomenclature as in the Framework – Certificate I, Diploma

• Occupational or functional stream, in brackets (Fabrication)

• National code of qualification

• Date issued

• Authorised signatory

• The Nationally Recognised Training Logo

• The word, ‘the qualification certified herein is recognised within the Australian Qualifications Framework; and

• Where appropriate, include the words, ‘achieved through Apprenticeship/Traineeship arrangements.

The qualification will also identify the units of competency from Training packages that have been achieved including the national code and name for each unit of competence.

The level of consistency in the format required nationally is restricted to the name of the qualification being indicated first, followed by the word ‘in’ (for Certificates I’IV and Graduate Certificate) or the word ‘of’ (for Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Graduate Diploma) followed by the title. In the case of a general category and a more specific category the title should be written as the example below:

• Certificate III in General Category (specific if required)

Statements of Attainment Protocol

All Statements of Attainment issued in the Vocational Education and Training sector and issued by Orion include the following elements:

• Orion name, logo and national provider number;

• name of person who achieved the competencies or modules;

• date issued;

• a list (and/or attached list) of competencies that have been achieved (or modules where no competencies exist) including the national code for each unit of competence;

• Name of Training package or Accredited course;

• AQF qualification partly completed (if more than one, the most relevant may be chosen);

• authorised signatory;

• the Statement of Attainment may also include the Nationally Recognised Training logo and the State/Territory Training Authority logo; and

• the words ‘This Statement of Attainment is recognised within the Australian Qualifications Framework’.

Credit Transfer

If upon enrolment a student requests a Credit Transfer in recognition for Units of Competency previously completed with another RTO or AQF authorised issuing organisation that completed transcript must be an original or certified copy of the completed transcript.

Orion will then determine whether the application for credit transfer is accepted or where relevant gap training is required. Where the student wishes to use Recognition of Prior Learning towards completion of a qualification a gap assessment will be undertaken.