Course Description: This course provides you with hands-on skills and knowledge that enables you to carry out a wide range of tasks in the tiling industry. This specific training and Assessment Strategy is targeted towards learners who are seeking to further their skills and knowledge practical and theoretical aspects of working in the wall and floor Industry. The target audience for this Training and Assessment Strategy are individuals who are working as apprentice tilers or have some relevant work experience within the industry either as a tiler or in the construction industry.

This qualification supports the attainment of the skills and knowledge required to work as a tiler. The training and assessment strategy focuses to enhancing individual’s knowledge required to enter the various roles within the tiling industry such as, apprentice tiler, general labourer specific to tiling, consultant and business owner. 

This course includes written projects assignments, as well as observation of practical tasks. Group tasks or assignments may occur as a type of assessment.

Assessment: A range of assessment strategies is employed  for this qualification and the choice of strategy  is dependent on the nature of the unit of competency. Strategies may include but not limit practical application and demonstration of skills, oral presentations, written assignments, tests and projects, work-based projects including the maintenance of log books.

Recognition of prior learning: Students are able to apply for recognition of prior learning for individual units of competency.

Credit transfer: There are no formal articulation arrangements in place. Pathways to degrees in architecture are available but arrangements must be made with individual universities.As the course includes imported units from a nationally endorsed Training Package and a state accredited course, credit transfer  is  available  in relation to any qualifications or courses that include the imported units.

Delivery Mode: The program will be delivered on campus and will be face-to-face delivery. UED provides students with learning support assistance through access to resources such as the library and learning materials. The learner is required to achieve competency in 19 units in order to complete the course and be awarded the qualification of CPC31311 – Certificate III in Wall and Floor Tiling. The learner will undergo: An introduction process explaining the units of competency and the training and assessment program. A review of the available units of competency that have been selected. The units of competency to be included in a participant’s training program have been determined through discussions with Industry Consultants who have knowledge of the requirements to supervise a team of employees within a business environment

Various business representatives review the program and sample of learning materials and assessments.

The format for delivery/assessment has been designed around a program involving a combination of review of existing skills, gap training as appropriate, theory sessions as appropriate, classroom sessions and practical assessments and assessment in a suitably equipped simulated or virtual workplace environment. If a learner cannot access a simulated workplace, skills and knowledge may be learned and practiced through appropriate case studies as determined relevant.

Entry/ Exit points: A student may exit from this qualification at any time with a Statement of Attainment for any units of competency completed successfully up to that point.

Career pathways:

Training Pathway

CPC31311 – Certificate III in Wall and Floor Tiling to

CPC40110 – Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Building) to

CPC50308 Diploma of Building and Construction (Management) or CPC50210 – Diploma of Building and Construction (Building)

Employment Pathway

​Employment outcomes resulting from the completion of this course may include: Tiler, Wall and floor tiler.

Eligibility/ Entry requirements: This qualification requires a minimum of year 10 completion or equivalent. Unity School of Education requires students to be a minimum of 16 years of age and to demonstrate that they have sufficient English Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) through satisfactory completion of UED’s pre-enrolment LLN test. International students may be required to provide evidence of their English Language Proficiency to the minimum level of 5.5 in IELTS or equivalent.(Exceptions exist, please discuss with the admissions department).

Program Content: The training program covers 19 units of competency taken from the Qualification. It has total Core units of 16 and 3 Elective Units, participants are required to successfully complete all 16 core units.

Resources: Students are issued with learning materials and handouts relevant to each unit. Students are encouraged their own laptops.

Assessment Resources: In addition to learner workbooks and assessment instructions, additional resources will be made available to learners.

Learning Resources: Learners will be provided with the mix of in-house developed and commercially prepared training and assessment resources that have been contextualised for the use at Unity School of Education and for specific learner needs when required.

Physical Resources: Unity School of Education will ensure that a suitably equipped training room and workshop environment is available for training and assessment processes, as required. This includes mandatory attendance of learners at the campuses.