RPLQueensland
A file you build while you work
An RTO can assess a portfolio in a week. The same file can also take six months, or four years. You add the job while you are on the tools. When the evidence covers the units, the RTO assesses. A unit you cannot learn on the job stays a gap, and the RTO teaches that unit. This portfolio does not issue the qualification, and it does not approve the subsidy.
What the state actually funds
- Trade Skills Assessment and Gap Training is for priority trade qualifications. At least 60% has to be recognition. Gap training cannot be more than 40%. An entire qualification cannot be issued from recognition alone. The student contribution for gap training has been published at $1.60 a nominal hour, or less on concession. New provider contracts have been closed. The department’s page.
- Tradie Skills Recognition, from October 2026, funds a free assessment for experienced workers across automotive, engineering, manufacturing, personal services, and hospitality. It does not cover construction, or licensed electrical and plumbing. Construction sits with Construction Skills Queensland.
- Construction Skills Queensland has published a skills assessment and gap training list. TAFE Queensland’s 2024–2025 sheet shows $1,500 to the provider for the assessment, $400 a gap unit from the fund, and $50 a gap unit from the student. Places are limited and not guaranteed. Confirm the current round before anyone relies on those amounts.
Construction qualifications on that published list
- AHC30921 · Certificate III in Landscape Construction
- CPC30120 · Certificate III in Shopfitting
- CPC30220 · Certificate III in Carpentry
- CPC30620 · Certificate III in Painting and Decorating
- CPC30820 · Certificate III in Roof Tiling
- CPC31020 · Certificate III in Solid Plastering
- CPC31220 · Certificate III in Wall and Ceiling Lining
- CPC31320 · Certificate III in Wall and Floor Tiling
- CPC31420 · Certificate III in Construction Waterproofing
- CPC32320 · Certificate III in Stonemasonry
- CPC32620 · Certificate III in Roof Plumbing
- CPC33020 · Certificate III in Bricklaying and Blocklaying
- MSF30422 · Certificate III in Glass and Glazing
- MSF30822 · Certificate III in Flooring Technology
- RII30820 · Certificate III in Civil Construction Plant Operations
Plumbing and electrical are not on this construction list. A diploma of artificial intelligence is not on it either. If an RTO does not offer recognition for a qualification, this portfolio can still hold the evidence. It cannot make that RTO assess it.