AFTRS

Level

AQF Level 4

AQF Level 7

AQF Level 8

Pre-requisites for AFTRS award courses (students will be able to demonstrate as below at entry)

Pre-requisites for Foundation Diploma

Pre-requisites for Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas

Pre-requisites for Masters degrees

Summary

Graduates at this level will have theoretical and practical knowledge and skills for specialised/and/or skilled work and/or further learning

Graduates at this level will have broad and coherent knowledge and skills for professional work and/or further learning

Graduates at this level will have advanced knowledge and skills for professional/highly skilled work and/or further learning

Knowledge

Graduates at this level will have broad factual, technical and some theoretical knowledge of a specific area or a broad field of work and learning

Graduates at this level will have broad and coherent theoretical and technical knowledge with depth in one more disciplines or areas of practice

Graduates at this level will have advanced theoretical and technical knowledge in one or more disciplines or areas of practice

Skills

Graduates at this level will have a broad range of cognitive, technical and communication skills to select and apply a range of methods, tools, material and information to:

• Complete routine and non-routine activities

• Provide and transmit solutions to a variety of predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems 

Graduates at this level will have well-developed cognitive, technical and communications skills to select and apply methods and technologies to:

• Analyse and evaluate information to complete a range of activities

• Analyse, generate and transmit solutions to unpredictable and sometimes complex problems

• Transmit knowledge, skills and ideas to others

Graduates at this level will have advanced cognitive, technical and communication to select and apply methods and technologies to:

• Analyse critically, evaluate and transform information to complete a range of activities

• Analyse, generate and transmit solutions to complex problems

• Transmit knowledge, skills and ideas to others

Application of knowledge and skills

Graduates at this level will apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy, judgement and limited responsibility in known or changing contexts and within established parameters.

Graduates at this level will apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy, well-developed judgement and responsibility:

• In contexts that require self-directed work and learning

• Within broad parameters to provide specialist advice and functions

Graduates at this level will apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy, well-developed judgement, adaptability and responsibility as practitioner or learner