Who may offer a Vocational Graduate Certificate or Vocational Graduate Diploma?
• Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) which, as well as TAFEs and private VET providers, may include universities and other approved higher education institutions which become RTOs for the purpose of offering these qualifications. Can the holder of a Vocational Graduate Certificate or Vocational Graduate Diploma be ‘deemed’ to have a Bachelor Degree? This question sometimes arises when a job specifies a qualification ‘equivalent to or above the level of Bachelor Degree’. Like the higher education Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma, the Vocational Graduate Certificate and Vocational Graduate Diploma are graduate qualifications above the Bachelor Degree in the AQF. However, it is important to note that, in both sectors, these qualifications have a more selective purpose than the Bachelor degree and so do not have the comprehensive coverage of the academic discipline base characteristic of the Bachelor Degree. To receive a complimentary copy of the Vocational Graduate Certific
