1. TAFE NSW Recognition Colloquium 7 June, 2007

2. The 10 top tips for processing Recognition Harnessing the power of process

3. www.tafensw.edu.au Course Student Assessment Guides Student Recognition Guide for each module Course Credit Estimate Report on E- services Tip 1: Recognition Information on the Internet

5. What great Recognition skills and expertise do we already have? What resources do we have? What systems do we have? What issues do we have? STAGE I – THE STATE OF RECOGNITION

6. Tip 2: Educational Capability website DET Intranet site – TAFE and Community EducationDET Intranet site TAFE Strategy and Business Operations Teaching and Learning – Recognition Contains Embedded Testamur Policy and other policies PowerPoint presentation for use in staff training Links to HSC/TAFE website and other relevant sites

7. Tip 3: Everyone’s Guide to Recognition – NEW EDITION Found on Educational Capability website New chapters on processing Recognition Hyperlinks to relevant websites and for easy navigation Frequently asked questions covering nearly every possible Recognition scenario

8. Tip 4: 2007 Guide to Enrolment and Enrolment Adjustment forms Found on Educational Capability website Updated annually Hyperlinked for easy navigation Detailed instructions on processing all types of forms

9. What If Student Record Summaries SCIENRSRS GOLD 2 for What If report Shows all possible entitlements based on previous TAFE studies Complements the E-services report available to students Tip 5: SCIS

10. Standard exemption entries Advanced Standing Arrangements Course Student Assessment Guides Unit Guides Tip 6: CIDO

11. Tip 7: Learning and Assessment Strategy Form A useful new resource for Recognition recording? May need to be customised, or perhaps a new version for Recognition assessment could be added? Available on CIDO for every course Full course structure shown with unit codes and names Codes for types of evidence presented

12. Tip 8: HSC/TAFE and TAFE/Uni Credit Transfer websites Link to the sites from the TAFE NSW website HSC/TAFE site shows all entitlements for Standard exemptions based on HSC study Shows possible units that students may gain credit for, based on VET study in school High rate of use in schools TAFE/Uni site links to Universities with credit transfer websites

13. Tip 9: Tools for processing Overseas study Country Education Profiles – AEI website www.dest.gov.au/noosr (Australian Education International) www.dest.gov.au/noosr Obtain a password from TAFE International Education Unit – Debra Pinkerton 9217 4574 Multicultural Education Unit booklets map overseas school and university qualifications to Australian levels

14. Tip 10: Curriculum Centre Gateway sites and your colleagues Many new Recognition resources under construction Funded by ESC, BVET and COAG Will be in hard copy and electronic formats SCIS Help Desk Progressions and Completions Unit (David Hooker’s unit) Your campus support staff

15. Conclusion “Prior learning is a gift, but sometimes we treat it as a burden” Adapted from Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director, Maytree Foundation Recognizing Learning Conference Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2001