Institute of Foundation Skills Part of the CAQA group

Foundation Skills

Foundation Skills, taught against the national register.

The Foundation Skills package itself is only three current qualifications. This register widens that to every current qualification built for foundation, pathway and preparation purposes, wherever it sits. Everything listed here is drawn from the national register, so this page cannot drift from what is actually current.

16Current qualifications
3AQF levels
10Training packages
AQFNationally recognised
A qualification is a promise that someone can do the work.

Which means the assessment has to be real, the trainers have to be current, and the evidence has to survive somebody checking it later.

IThe register

16 current qualifications in this discipline.

Filter by AQF level or search by code and title. Superseded qualifications are excluded, because listing a superseded product as available is a compliance problem rather than a presentation choice.

CodeQualificationPackage
Certificate III3 qualifications
AHC33025Certificate III in Wool Clip PreparationAHC
MSM30216Certificate III in Surface Preparation and Coating ApplicationMSM
RII31220Certificate III in Civil FoundationsRII
Certificate II7 qualifications
AUR20720Certificate II in Automotive Vocational PreparationAUR
CPC20220Certificate II in Construction PathwaysCPC
FSK20119Certificate II in Skills for Work and Vocational PathwaysFSK
MEM20422Certificate II in Engineering PathwaysMEM
MSF20522Certificate II in Furniture Making PathwaysMSF
MSM21122Certificate II in Recreational Vehicle Trade PathwaysMSM
RII20120Certificate II in Resources and Infrastructure Work PreparationRII
Certificate I6 qualifications
ACM10121Certificate I in Animal Care Industry PathwaysACM
AUR10120Certificate I in Automotive Vocational PreparationAUR
AVI10119Certificate I in Aviation (Foundation Skills)AVI
FSK10119Certificate I in Access to Vocational PathwaysFSK
FSK10219Certificate I in Skills for Vocational PathwaysFSK
MSM10216Certificate I in Manufacturing (Pathways)MSM
Source: training.gov.au
IIHow we teach

Assessment first, content second.

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Built from the evidence

We start from what the unit requires you to demonstrate, then design the teaching that gets you there. The reverse order produces courses that are interesting and unassessable.

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Current practitioners

Trainers who still work in the field. Vocational currency is a requirement, and it is also the difference between a class that is true and one that was true.

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Honest about the gap

Where a qualification prepares you for a role but does not licence you for it, we say so before you enrol rather than after.

IIIPathways

One qualification is rarely the destination.

The levels above stack. A Certificate III that leads nowhere is a worse outcome than a Certificate II that leads somewhere, and the register is arranged so you can see the next step before you commit to this one.

Credit transfer

Units completed in one qualification carry into any other qualification that contains them. That is a right, not a concession, and it is worth checking before you re enrol in something you have already done.

Start a conversation.

Tell us where you are now and what you are trying to reach. The right qualification usually follows from that.