Funding
Trade skills assessment & gap training program (TSAGT) - QLD
An exciting opportunity to have your ENGINEERING experience recognised and become Trade qualified.
The program goals are:
- To recognise the existing skills of experienced individuals who have been employed in industry for a significant time and can provide experience of competency.
- To provide additional training to complete the qualification.
Eligibility:
Eligible participants will be skilled individuals who:
- Can successfully complete a minimum of 60% of the funded competencies in an engineering priority trade qualification through recognition of prior learning (RPL).
- Require gap training in no more than 40% of the funded competencies/ points of a priority trade qualification to enable completion of the qualification.
Participants must also:
- Be 21 years of age or over.
- Permanently reside in Queensland.
- Be an Australian citizen, or Australian permanent resident (includes humanitarian entrant), temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency, or a New Zealand citizen.
- Not have previously completed a trade qualification in the same industry area, that is, a qualification within the same national training package.
- Not currently be an apprentice or trainee as defined in the Further Education and Training Act 2014.
Fees
Participant pays a co-contribution amount of $1.60 per nominal hour for each unit of competency that is gap trained. NO fee is payable for credit transfers or RPL outcomes.
TRADE QUALIFICATIONS
- MEM30219 Certificate III in Engineering Mechanical Trade
- MEM31922 Certificate III in Engineering Fabrication Trade
- MEM40119 Certificate IV in Engineering
