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[Robyn Francis <robyn@permaculture.com.au>]

APT is the Accredited Permaculture Training system here in Australia. In Oz
there's a national accreditation system for vocational training and
qualifications (e.g. Trade certificates and diplomas) We have permaculture
qualifications and vocational training which has been going since 2003. PT
is owned by the Australian pc community via Permaculture International Ltd.

The APT lower certificates (I & II) are more suited to secondary school and
community education, whereas the Certificates III, IV and Diploma are geared
towards training professional permaculture practitioners in all fields of
permaculture work.

Vocational qualifications differ from university degrees in that they are
competency-based learning with equal emphasis on practical application,
skills and knowledge.

There's info about APT at
http://www.permacultureaustralia.org.au/category/permaculture-australia/apt/
There's also useful info on the Cert III, IV and Diploma programs here at
PCA (Djanbung Gardens)
http://permaculture.com.au/online/accredited-training/accredited-training
Also some of our FAQs might be helpful

Am most happy to discuss APT generally on this list, however when its gets
down to nitty gritty stuff for a dedicated group and working committee to
communicate then a means of exchange independent of a public forum is the
appropriate way to go.

Ciao
Robyn

On 3/09/11 4:41 PM, "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

> On 9/3/2011 1:22 AM, Robyn Francis wrote:
>> Hi Neil,
>> 
>> There's been a quite few people in the US have expressed interest regarding
>> the potential for using APT or creating an APT-style framework in the USA
>> for vocational training and internships in permaculture.
>> 
>> I'd be willing to work with a dedicated core group of interested people in
>> exploring this further.
>> 
>> There's a national APT gathering coming up early October and will request 
>> to
>> have APT overseas affiliations on the agenda.
>> 
>> Anyone seriously interested in pursuing this further and in depth through a
>> dedicated discussion group, please contact me off list.
> 
> Please feel free to discuss APT here in this list as opposed to dividing
> conversations between this forum and yet another different one
> about permaculture
> 
> BTW, what is APT?
> 
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Permaculture College Australia inc
Pathways to sustainability through
Accredited Permaculture Training
Certificates III & IV and Diploma of Permaculture
PDC and short courses

Robyn Francis 
International permaculture design and
sustainability consultant, educator & facilitator

Djanbung Gardens 
Permaculture Education Centre & Demonstration Farm
PO Box 379 Nimbin NSW 2480
02-6689 1755  /  0429 147 138
www.permaculture.com.au