Coalition of Celebrant Associations

Australia’s Peak Celebrant Body

Streamlining of Courses

Some points to understand about the Streamlining of Courses
  1. The Skills Council is  streamlined ALL its courses in line with a national VET directive.
  2. This means removing all duplication and all information only units.
The old units are now divided into 3 parts
A. PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
B. ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS
C. Companion volumes
NB This must be in line with the standards set by NATIONAL SKILLS STANDARDS COUNCIL NATIONAL SKILLS STANDARDS COUNCIL – STANDARDS FOR TRAINING PACKAGES. Download Standards PDF
  • This means all the knowledge must relate to the tasks to be performed in A. PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
  • Units are no  longer equal (if they ever were?) in time components, but strictly determined by the B. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA – This is what ASQA will be auditing the RTOs upon.
  • The training cannot assume any prior knowledge or skills, as the VET system actively discourages any prerequisites for the courses/ units
  • Streamlining  require that all the generic knowledge and skills be clustered together first in the Core and specialisation  second in electives. Thus marriage specific or funeral specific units are not in the core.
  • The training needs to cover the range of situations in which all celebrants work, not just marriage, and thus can not be specific to just one type of celebrant.
    IE Arguing marriage celebrant only training, as separate from funeral celebrant training,  would not fit the VET model.
  • Celebrants are asked to ensure that the
    A. All the tasks and skills required to be a competent professional celebrant are covered somewhere
    in the proposed course  – ie has anything been left out?
    AND
    B.  The Assessment Units associated with this course’s units, have detailed assessment tasks
    over a variety of situations, with a variety of clients to ensure that ALL the RTOs  must teach and assess
    the trainees doing all the tasks they need to be a competent and knowledge celebrant at the end of the training?
  • This streamlining process would have rearranged and edited out duplication, whether celebrants were involved or not. However we as celebrants all have an opportunity now to ensure that new marriage or  funeral celebrants have the best training possible to enable them to do their work competently from the start.Comments and questions welcome here.


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