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AMP Australian Meat Industry Training Package - update

AMP Version 1

The first version of the Training Package was approved by the Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC) on 12 October 2015. This included the meat retailing, Certificate IV, Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Graduate qualifications. We continue the process of advising industry of the changes and supporting RTOs to change their scope of registration. The support material for these qualifications were released at the end of January.

It appears that most RTOs already have the new qualifications on their scope of registration, although there are a few anomalies we have followed up.

AMP Version 2

Stage 2, which includes all the remaining qualifications, was completed in August 2015, and was submitted to the AISC in November 2015.
However, there have been ongoing delays to the approval of Version 2 of the Package, because we had to use ‘conditional pre-requisites’, i.e. we had made the Sharpen Knives a pre-requisite only where a knife was being used for specific tasks, and not if the process was completed using machinery. Evidently there was no precent for such an approach and so a very cautious attitude was adopted by both the AISC and the Department.

We have been advised that this option has now been rejected and the Sharpen Knives has returned to being a mandated pre-requisite for those units. We understand that the Training Package was considered again by AISC on May 16 and was approved, and is currently being loaded into training.gov.au.

The Training and Assessment material for all qualifications covered by Version 2 are already available from MINTRAC.

Extension of transition period for training products endorsed between September 2015 to March 2016 (ASQA advice, April 2016)

As a result of the transition to the Standards for Training Packages there is a temporary surge in the number of revised training products endorsed by the Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC). The peak of activity for release of revised training packages is within the period September 2015 to March 2016.

To assist RTOs to prepare for and implement revised training packages, the Australian Government Minister for Vocational Education and Skills and state and territory Skills Ministers, have agreed to temporarily increase the period allowed to transition students to the updated training package qualification under Standard 1.26(a) of the Standards for RTOs 2015.

For more information please go to http://www.education.gov.au/regulation-vet