The Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) has announced that its Automotive Refinishing apprentices are particularly well-placed to continue their studies while at their workplace, primarily because of ‘remote assessments’ and the damaging 2020 hailstorm.
Teacher of Automotive Refinishing at CIT, Adrian Gibbons said the harmful hailstorm earlier in the year meant most of the apprentices’ employers in the refinishing and panel-beating industry have been very busy.
“With the shops still busy, our apprentices have a lot of work, so it made more sense to assess them on the work they are already doing,” Mr Gibbons said.
“Their workplaces will collect evidence of the completed work done by our students and then send this to us so it can be assessed,” he said.
“Rather than having the students come into CIT, they can submit videos and photos of their work and I can assess it remotely.”
Mr Gibbons said CIT’s workplace evidence forms had been completely overhauled to become simpler for both students and employers.
“Clear instruction around what evidence is required and strict guidelines on what can be assessed allows better quality evidence to be collected,” he said.
“The changes to the workplace evidence document is also a streamlined process and now requires less of the employer’s time.”
He said the current approach allowed students to continue their training while also staying in the workplace and supporting the operations of busy businesses.
