The Training Agreement

Training agreements shall include unit standards from the appropriate domains of the qualifications framework and may also include others from other domains relevant to the discipline. No minimum credit value is required, however a government subsidy for training components may be available if the total credits amount to 20 or more.

Training providers shall be committed to the delivery of an appropriate training programme that covers all the elements of the unit standards. Where requirements can not be fully met due to lack of availability of appropriate equipment or personnel, a training provider may contract a private training establishment to deliver the specific training requirements. The Training Provider organisation, their employees and contractors shall be bound by the requirements of the Privacy Act.

Trainees shall be committed to their best efforts to attain the skills and knowledge defined in the unit standards in a time frame agreed to by themselves and the training provider. For trainees who enter into an agreement to obtain a national certificate or a package of unit standards of a similar credit value, the attainment of 20 credits per year should be considered a minimum. Trainees shall grant Opportunity Training and their training providers approval to use information concerning their learning, within the limits of the Privacy Act.

Opportunity Training or the Training Provider organisation shall provide training material appropriate to the selected unit standards, arrange for assessment and keep records of agreements, assessments and assessment outcomes. Details of the attainments shall be forwarded to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority for their records.

Opportunity Training shall be bound by the requirements of the Privacy Act.

The training agreement may be terminated at any time by the trainee or the employer under agreed and appropriate terms. Advice of any termination of agreements shall be given to Opportunity Training within seven days of termination.

Where any trainee has not attained any credits during a 12 month period Opportunity Training will check with employers, as soon as practicable after 30 June to ascertain:

1. whether or not the trainee is still employed by that company,
2. if so whether or not the trainee intends becoming "active" within the next 12 months
3. is already actively engaged in training but is not ready for assessment

If the response shows that the trainee is either no longer employed or does not intend becoming "active" the industry training agreement will be terminated.

The cost of training, both to register with Opportunity Training to obtain training material and any other costs shall be met by the training provider and/or the trainee in whatever arrangement is agreed to by them.