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Overview of Training Packages

What is a training package?

A training package is a set of documents that clearly sets out all the information required to deliver and assess a stand alone unit of training.

Australian training packages are flexible; they can support multiple modes of delivery such as classroom-based and on-the-job, and they are underpinned by competency based assessment; the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform employment related tasks.

Training Packages is the way workplace qualifications are now delivered in Australia; this is called 'official' or 'accredited' training and the qualifications are recognised nationally.

A Training Package:

Provides nationally endorsed competency standards and qualifications and assessment guidelines
Enables qualifications to be awarded through direct assessment of competencies rather than against the learning outcomes of a course
Encourages the development, packaging and delivery of training to suit individual learner needs
Encourages learning at work, leading to recognised qualifications
Provides pathways so that a worker or learner can progress from one qualification to another.

A Training Package can be summed up as a box of rules and tools that supports training, learning and development.

Further Information

There is information on this website about the Community Service Training Package and The Business Services Training Package
For more information about training packages, visit the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) website at http://www.anta.gov.au