Glossary

A

Accredited course:  An accredited course is approved by a Sate or Territory course accrediting body.  For a course to be accredited, it must meet the standards outlined in the AQTF 2007 Standards for State and Territory Course Accrediting Bodies and the AQTF 2007 Standards for Accrediting Courses. 

Acquittal:  Formal statement by the Funding Recipient of income and expenditure in accordance with the Funding Agreement.

Apparent retention rate:  The Year 12 apparent retention rate is estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as the number of students in Year 12 in a given calendar year divided by the number of students who were in the first Year of secondary school when that grade cohort commenced secondary school. The students observed in Year 12 need not necessarily have been in the specific cohort when it commenced secondary school.

Applicant:  The secondary school making an application for Trade Training Centres in Schools Program funding - see How to apply for further information.

Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF):  The Australian Qualifications Framework (commonly known as the AQF) is a unified system of national qualifications in schools, vocational education and training (TAFEs and private providers) and the higher education sector (mainly universities).  It is a single coherent framework for qualifications from Senior Secondary Certificates through to Doctoral Degrees.  The framework links together all these qualifications and is a quality-assured national system of educational recognition that promotes lifelong learning and a seamless and diverse education and training system.  Within the framework, there are eight vocational education and training qualifications available: Certificates I, II, III and IV; Diploma; Advanced Diploma; Vocational Graduate Certificate and Vocational Graduate Diploma.

Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF):    The nationally agreed recognition arrangements for the vocational education and training sector.  The Australian Quality Training Framework is based on a quality assured approach to the registration of training organisations seeking to delivery training, assess competency outcomes and issue Australian Qualifications Framework qualifications and/or Statements of Attainment and ensures the recognition of training providers and the Australian Qualifications Framework qualifications and Statement of Attainment they issue, across Australia.

C

Consortium:  an association of a single secondary school, or cluster of secondary schools, working in partnership with Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), Group Training Organisations (GTOs), employers and/or bodies to with the objective of establishing a Trade Training Centre as a shared facility.  Consortium arrangements could also include a cluster of secondary schools seeking to establish a Trade Training Centre as a shared facility.

D

DEEWR:  The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

E

Emerging Industry qualifications:  For the purposes of this Program, emerging industry qualifications are drawn from the Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program 2007 eligible innovation list.  The innovative incentive reflects that to build Australia’s competitive advantage in both emerging and traditional industries, industry needs to have access to people who can understand, apply and manage enabling technologies considered crucial for innovation.  Key sources of innovation include pharmaceutical, aircraft, electronics and chemical industries as well as major utilities.  Further information on the Commonwealth’s Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program can be found at the Australian Apprenticeships website.

F

Funding Recipient:  An organisation that receives Trade Training Centres in Schools Program funding.

Funding Agreement:  The formal agreement between the Commonwealth as represented by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and schools in relation to the administration of funded activity under the Trade Training Centres in Schools Program.

G

Goods and Services Tax (GST): The GST is a broad-based tax of 10 per cent on the supply of most goods and services consumed in Australia.

Guidelines: The Trade Training Centres in Schools Program Guidelines (611.0 KB).

I

In-kind contributions/in-kind support: In-kind support to a project consists of products or services provided to the project that have an intrinsic value, but are not provided as direct cash or financial support. AZ example includes the use of an office at no charge (the value of the rent not charged would be an in-kind contribution).

M

Milestones:  A key achievement at a specific stage in the project.  Payments of grant instalments are generally tied to the achievement of milestones, usually at dates set out in the Funding Agreement schedule.

Minister: The Commonwealth Minister for Education.

P

Program: Refers to the Trade Training Centres in Schools Program.

R

Registered Training Organisation (RTO):  are registered by state and territory training authorities to delivery nationally recognised training – which means training that:

• is recognised by all RTOs through Australia;
• is part of a Training Package that has been developed to meet the needs of a particular industry, or an accredited course; and
• results in a qualification that is part of the Australian Qualifications Framework.

S

School Cluster:  For the purposes of this Program, two or more secondary schools seeking to establish a Trade Training Centre as a shared facility.

T

Traditional trade areas:  Traditional trade occupations experiencing skills shortages be determined by national and regional information on skills shortages.  At a national level, industries experiencing skills shortages are identified through sources such as the National Skill Needs List (NSNL) which is published on the Australian Apprenticeships website.

Training Package:  Nationally endorsed sets of competency standards, and qualification requirements.