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Describe the opportunities, advantages, and disadvantages of rural employment Level
1
Credits
2
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the career and training opportunities in agriculture in New Zealand; and identify personal advantages and disadvantages of rural employment.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
General Agriculture
Status
Registered
Status date
20 May 2008
Date version published
20 May 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 19136 replaced unit standard 3.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0052
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do. Special notes None.
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Elements and performance criteria Element 1 Describe the career and training opportunities in agriculture in New Zealand. Range
farm assistant, farm management and ownership, agricultural services, farming options, on-job training, full and part-time study, national qualifications in agriculture, tertiary degrees.
Performance criteria 1.1
Major careers paths are described in terms of New Zealand agriculture.
1.2
Entry requirements are identified for one specific career path.
1.3
Relevant industry qualifications are identified in terms of name, composition, and potential providers.
1.4
A primary industry on-job training agreement is described in terms of its structure, general requirements, and supervising organisations.
1.5
National Qualifications Framework (NQF) based qualifications are described in terms of their principles. Range
unit standards, competency based assessment, levels, National Certificate make-up, credits, national database, record of achievement.
Element 2 Identify personal advantages and disadvantages of rural employment. Performance criteria 2.1
Rural employment is described in terms of typical characteristics. Range
2.2
may include but is not limited to – live-in, social contacts, distance factors, work hours, work conditions, animal handling, mechanical handling, physical requirements; evidence is required for a minimum of five.
The advantages and disadvantages of rural employment are described in terms of trainee’s personal situation.
Please note Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
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19137 version 2 Page 3 of 3 Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards. Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards. Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements. Comments on this unit standard Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation
[email protected] if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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