FIELD                 AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES

 

Revision of Dairy Farming qualification

 

National Certificate in Dairy Farming (Artificial Insemination) with strands in Site Technician, and Industry Technician [Ref: 0967]

 

The Agriculture Industry Training Organisation has revised the qualification listed above that was registered in September 2002.

 

Date new version published                                                          July 2005

 

The review of this qualification is planned to take place in 2007 (unchanged)

 

Reason for the revision

 

The qualification was revised because unit standard 21757 was considered more suitable for artificial insemination technicians, and it replaced unit standard 19115 in the core compulsory section.  The condition on the elective rule for the Industry Technician strand was also corrected.

 

Main changes resulting from the revision

 

Changes to structure and content

·      Unit standard 19115 replaced with unit standard 21757

·      Total qualification credits decreased by 1

·      Level 3 credits required for the Site Technician Elective increased by 1 credit

·      Level 4 credits required for the Industry Technician Elective amended to include 10 credits at level 4 or above and to set the level of the Industry Technician strand at level 4.  This condition on the rule was inadvertently omitted from Version 1.

 

Transition

 

It is recommended that people transfer to version 2 of the qualification as soon as possible.  All new training programmes or courses from 31 December 2005 will lead to this version of the qualification.  The last date for award of version 1 is December 2007.

 

People transferring before December 2007 can use the following exemption.

 

Credit for

Exempt from

19115

21757