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Preferred delivery pathways
The competencies in this training package may be attained in a number of ways including through:
• formal or informal education and training
• experiences in the workplace
• general life experience or
• any combination of the above.
Assessment under this training package leading to an AQF qualification or Statement of Attainment may
follow a learning and assessment pathway, an assessment‑only or recognition pathway, or a combination
of the two as illustrated in the following diagram from the SIR07 Retail Services Training Package.
Learning and assessment pathways
Units of
and/or
competency
Assessment only or recognition
of prior learning pathways
Statement of
Attainment and/
or qualification
under the Australian
Qualifications
Framework Statement
of Attainment and/
or qualification
under the Australian
Qualifications
Framework
Each of these assessment pathways leads to full recognition of competencies held – the critical issue is
that the candidate is competent, not how the competency was acquired.
The retail industry strongly supports the formative development of skills via work integrated learning.
Certificates II and III in Retail are preferred via a traditional traineeship model which combines off and on
the job delivery.
For visual merchandisers, most training is in a pre-employment context, however, quality providers
integrate significant on the job retail visual merchandising experience, via work placements at different
intervals throughout the diploma.
Management qualifications are best gained by project based approaches to real workplace management
experiences.
The retail industry has a clear expectation that learners in institutional programs are provided with access
to workplace experience directly related to the skills contained in the qualification for which they are
studying.
VET in schools
Supporting school students to achieve vocational skills
In some industries, Certificate I and Certificate II qualifications are regarded as ‘pathway’ qualifications or
as preparatory study—and all stakeholders accept that those qualifications do not reflect particular job
outcomes. The SIR10107 Certificate I in Retail is a pre-employment qualification.
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