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This document outlines the National Training Board's (NTB's) policy and guidelines specifically on gender issues and provides checklists and practical suggestions on eliminating gender bias in the development of competency standards. It should be read and interpreted in conjunction with the NTB's 'National competency standards: policy and guidelines' (first edition indexed at TD/TNC 24.34 and second edition at TD/TNC 32.81), into the next edition of which it will be consolidated. Show less

This document sets out the broad policy which the National Training Board (NTB) will follow in endorsing national competency standards and provides guidelines to those involved in developing them.

It includes: an introduction to the role of competency standards in the vocational training system; the NTB's policy and priorities; an outline of the Australian standards framework; analysis methods used in developing competency standards; the format for presentation of competency standards; procedures for NTB recognition of competency standards bodies to develop standards, and; Board processes for endorsing competency standards.

Appendices include a glossary of terms and information on the NTB and its relationship with government bodies in the vocational training field. Show less