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Staff at Rockhampton City Council are jumping at the opportunity to have their current skills formally recognised through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). In an exciting move for Local Government staff, RPL is now being provided for the first time for Local Government Administration qualifications.
Funded by the Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts, Skilling Solutions Queensland is an innovative, training and career information service that assists people to fast track gaining a qualification.
The RPL process allows staff’s current skills and experience to be recognised towards a qualification.
Skilling Solutions Queensland offers a pre assessment process for RPL, which allows the employee to gain their qualification within a shorter timeframe.
A number of both private and government funded training organisations are linked with Skilling Solutions Queensland to provide the formal, fast tracked RPL process. As a preferred supplier of Skilling Solutions Queensland, Jeanne Marshall and Associates has been appointed as one of the Registered Training Organisations to provide RPL. The company will assist Local Government staff to obtain Certificate IV in Local Government Administration and the Diploma in Local Government Administration.
Rockhampton CEO, Bradley Duke, said Rockhampton was the first Council to support this initiative, as an opportunity to assist staff to attain formal nationally recognised qualifications based on their current experience working with Council. He said recognising employees’ prior learning and experience provides staff with an increased feeling of security and improved morale leading up to the coming amalgamation.
Bradley Duke has encouraged Council staff to take advantage of this service, as they may be eligible for a qualification and not even realise it.
“We are letting staff know that if they are skilled and want the paper to prove it, their first step could be recognition of prior learning, whether that prior learning was through their previous work, life experience, training, community work experience or education,” he said. “We value the skills and experience of all of our staff and I am pleased we can now offer our employees the opportunity to have their knowledge and skills formally recognised through this process.”
Some 37 staff expressed interest in the RPL process and approximately 27 are now going through the process to have their prior learning recognised.
For further information contact Skilling Solutions Queensland on 1300 654 687 or Rockhampton’s Corporate Communications Unit on (07) 4936 8251.
