Why join AVETPA?
The Australian Vocational Education and Training Professional Association (AVETPA) has been established to enhance the professional standing of vocational education and training (VET) practitioners within the community and to build professional development and educational pathways for members. The emphasis is on practitioners as AVETPA’s vision is of a professional association such as the CPAs (Certified Practising Accountants) which has now over 150,000 members across 121 countries.
The key objectives of AVETPA are to provide firstly the recognition of a VET practitioner’s training credentials via membership grading (Member, Associate Fellow & Fellow), secondly to provide an avenue for the recognition of ongoing professional development and activities via membership upgrade and/or the CPT (Certified Practising Trainer) program and thirdly to enable practitioners within VET to have a voice in the complicated network associated with this critical educational sector.
Member
(M-AVETPA)
To become a Member you need to satisfy all of the following criteria:
- Have completed an AQF Certificate IV in Training & Assessment within the last five years.
- Be presently engaged in delivering and/or assessing training within the VET sector
- Be participating in VET professional development to a level of at least 20 hours per annum
- Post-nominals M-AVETPA
- Membership Certificate
- Association Logo (Member)
- Member Only Content
Associate Fellow
(AF-AVETPA)
To become an Associate Fellow you need to satisfy all of the following criteria:
- Have completed an AQF Diploma in a training related field or a higher degree with at least a major study component of adult learning/education within the last ten years
- Be presently engaged in delivering and/or assessing training within the VET sector
- Have had a proven at least five years successful engagement in delivering and/or assessing training within the VET sector
- Be participating in VET professional development to a level of at least 20 hours per annum
- Post-nominals AF-AVETPA
- Membership Certificate
- Association Logo (Associate Fellow)
- Member Only Content
Fellow
(F-AVETPA)
To become a Fellow you need to satisfy all of the following criteria:
- Have completed an AQF Diploma in a training related field and a higher education degree with at least a major study component of adult learning/education within the last ten years
- Be presently engaged in delivering and/or assessing training within the VET sector
- Have had a proven at least ten years successful engagement in delivering and/or assessing training within the VET sector
- Have made a significant contribution to the association or within the VET sector
- Be participating in VET professional development to a level of at least 20 hours per annum
- Post-nominals F-AVETPA
- Membership Certificate
- Association Logo (Fellow)
- Member Only Content
Companion
This grade is ideally suited to anyone in a leadership, management or support role in the sector, but who is not a trainer or assessor. Anyone with an interest in the work of the VET sector can benefit from Companion membership, which typically includes HR professionals, managers of teaching and learning support activities and senior leaders from non-teaching or training backgrounds. This category is open to anyone with an interest in vocational education and training but is not at this time actively engaged working within the sector.
- Member Only Content