Skills recognition
Skills recognition is a formal assessment process. It measures your skills and knowledge from previous study, training, work, or life experiences against the outcomes of the course in which you want to enrol.
If your skills are recognised in this way, you do not have to undertake training in areas where you are already competent. You save time and money if your existing skills are formalised against a qualification. You get the credit you deserve!
The skills recognition service is available for prospective and current students. Staff from the skills recognition service can:
- discuss your needs and options
- help you identify your previous experience
- guide you through the skills recognition process
- refer you to the appropriate assessor
- follow up your application
- support you with any concerns.
There are three ways that your skills can be recognised.
- Credit transfer (CT) applies to formal study that you have already completed through a school, university, institute of TAFE, or other registered provider of vocational education and training programs.
- Recognition of current competency (RCC) means that you may need to be re-assessed against a qualification you already have, to make sure that your competence is current. This is particularly relevant for licensing authorities.
- Recognition of prior learning (RPL) acknowledges that people learn in many different ways and that learning may have been obtained through a combination of education, training, work, and/or life experiences. Your skills, training, and experiences are assessed against the requirements of the course in which you want to enrol.
Skills Recognition Service
Our skills recognition service is quick, simple, and cost-effective, embedded in a process that is valid, reliable, and authentic. We invite you to explore your options regarding skills recognition.
If you have existing skills and knowledge and want to convert them into recognised qualifications, then the staff of Wodonga Institute's Skills Recognition Service may be able to help.
We can refer you to the people who can help you to convert your valuable formal education, and work and life experiences into formal, nationally-recognised skills.
Skills Recognition Service brochure (PDF 1.1Mb)
Phone 02 6055 6920 | Email skillsrecognition@wodongatafe.edu.au
Wodonga Skills Store
Skills Stores is a Victorian Government initiative that helps Victorians to recognise and develop their skills. It aims to make Victoria's vocational education and training system more accessible and easier to understand.
Wodonga Institute of TAFE hosts the Wodonga Skills Store that provides people and businesses with a free skills-matching service for:
- an opportunity to talk about skills and how to use them to gain qualifications
- a profile of how skills match all or part of a qualification
- course information and referral to a training organisation in the local region.
If you are a Victorian resident or a Victorian-based business, you may be entitled to some fee support towards the cost of your skills recognition.
Skills Store flyer (PDF 219Kb).
Contact a Wodonga Skills Store consultant.
Phone 1300 550 905 or 02 6055 6692 | Email skillsstores@wodongaskills.com.au
Web www.wodongaskills.com.au