Non-Award
This training course has been designed to prepare potential employees for living and working on remote cattle stations. Training is based around day-to-day activities carried out on working cattle stations. Students will be involved in basic fencing, stock water supplies, cattle handling and husbandry, horse handling and care, mechanical maintenance, basic welding, machinery and ATV vehicle operation.
Students will be enrolled in units from the Nationally Accredited AHC Training Package. Students will undertake these units at the Katherine Rural Campus and through a 4 week work placement.
CDU Domestic Entry Requirements
To ensure you have the right skills and support to succeed in your course, a Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LL&N) evaluation helps identify areas where you may need additional support to help you achieve your goals.
This is a physically demanding course and students must be fit, active and able to function effectively in a tropical environment. The industry is seeking people with a strong work ethic, an optimistic approach to life, a desire to continually improve, and who possess integrity and strong moral character.
Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills to read, write and record basic measurements.
To achieve the vocational training program VTP397 - Agriculture Pre-Employment Course a total of eleven (11) units of competency must be completed as listed below.
Following completion of this course, students may seek employment on a cattle station and where agreed to by their employer, enter into a Traineeship or undertake workplace training and assessment towards gaining a full qualification.
Skills recognition is not applicable to this course. CDU's short courses are highly targeted courses designed to help you improve a specific skill. They will help you improve your career prospects, maintain currency in your field, or allow you to try out something completely new.