What is a Training Package?

A Training Package describes a range of nationally approved units of competency, as well as guidelines how these units can be packaged into a vocational course at a particular level, which is endorsed by industry and meets the Vanuatu Qualifications Framework (VQF) and Vanuatu Quality Assurance Framework (VQAF) requirements for courses and qualifications. They also include support and guidance for delivery of the designed course.

VQA has endorsed Training Packages for a wide range of industries.

Each Training Package:

• provides an approved, consistent and reliable set of units of competency for training, recognizing and assessing people's skills, and may also have optional support materials;
• encourages the development and delivery of flexible training which suits individual and industry requirements;
• Encourages learning and assessment in a work-related environment which leads to verifiable workplace outcomes; and,
• enables nationally recognised qualifications to be awarded through direct assessment of workplace competencies

Training Package Endorsed Components

Training Packages consist of two types of components: compulsory components that are endorsed by the VQA, and optional support materials that are not endorsed.

The nationally endorsed components include the Units of Competency, the Assessment Guidelines and the Vanuatu Qualifications Framework (VQF). These form the basis of training and assessment in the Training Package and as such, they must be used.

Training Package Support Materials or Non-endorsed components

The endorsed components of Training Packages are complemented and supported by optional materials that provide for choice in the design of training and assessment to meet the needs of industry and learners.

Training Package support materials or non-endorsed components can relate to single or multiple units of competency, an industry sector, a qualification or the whole Training Package. They tend to fall into one or more of the categories illustrated below.

Training Package support materials are produced by a range of stakeholders such as Registered Providers, individual trainers and assessors, private and commercial developers and Government agencies.

Where such materials have been quality assured through a process of 'noting' by the VQA, they display an official VQA logo.