BSB30415 Certificate III in Business Administration

Job titles and roles vary across the various industry sectors. Possible titles relevant to this qualification include:

• Accounts Clerk
• Receptionist
• Junior Personal Assistant
• Office Assistant

1. Completion of Year 11 is recommended. Preferred pathways for candidates considering this qualification include:

• BSB20115 Certificate II in Business or equivalent relevant qualification
  or
• Industry/vocational experience business, assisting in a range of support roles without a formal business qualification.

2. English Language requirement:

To gain entry to this course you must show us you have sufficient English language skills to understand the course requirements, your teachers and the fellow students with whom you will be studying.  This entry requirement is confirmed if you reach one of the following test scores:

• IELTS level 5.5
• TOEFL PB 506
• TOEFL IBT 62
• Cambridge Advanced English (CAE) 162
• Pearson Test of English Academic 46

You are meeting our English language entry requirements if you have successfully completed another vocational course with us.

Where you don’t have any of the above test results available, you may request an interview with one of our Enrolment Advisors.  Our Enrolment Advisor will take you through a structured interview where we ask you questions which are designed to reveal your English language requirements.  Our Director of Studies will then direct you to an appropriate test or a further interview with a suitably qualified expert from Cairns Language Centre.

Where you can’t reach our requirements, we have our sister organisation – Cairns Language Centre – which can help you to reach the required levels.

• If you have English language skills rated at IELTS 4.5 or equivalent, you can be admitted to this course successfully undertaking 20 weeks of Intensive or Super-Intensive English language training with a written recommendation from your Language Centre teacher that you are at the IELTS 5.5 level.
• If you have English language skills rated at IELTS 5.0 or equivalent, you can be admitted to this course successfully undertaking 10 weeks of Intensive or Super-Intensive English language training with a written recommendation from your Language Centre teacher that you are at the IELTS 5.5 level.

Fees: Domestic Students AUD $3,800 | International Students AUD $5,500

Starting dates:

We can be very flexible about when you can start your study. If you are ready to start, then the chances are that we can meet your needs. We can do this because of our personalised approach to your learning and our ongoing attention to your progress.

We are open for 48 weeks each year. We close for 2 weeks over Christmas/New Year and 2 weeks in the mid-year (June/July).

Cairns Business College
91-97 Mulgrave Road
Parramatta Park, Cairns QLD 4870

Our programs are delivered face to face. We offer course materials and resources which you can access online to enhance your learning. These online resources are designed to enhance the outcomes of your face to face learning: they are not a substitute for face to face learning.

We find that some students have existing skills and experience which relate to your intended course of study. The existing skills and experience might be helpful in shortening the time it takes for you to achieve your desired qualification. The skills and/or experience might come from earlier studies, career and life experiences.

You will appreciate that we need to obtain sufficient evidence to justify any RPL that you might achieve. We undertake our RPL activity by using an RPL kit. The kit asks you to reflect on the skills you hold, how these relate to your intended course of study and how you can provide evidence that you are sufficiently skilled. While this approach can sound formal, our objective is to help you through the process and to respect the skills you already hold.

It is unusual, but not impossible, for you to achieve RPL for a complete qualification. More commonly, students achieve RPL for some of the Units of Competency within their desired qualification.  There is no guarantee either way. Until we are able to work with you and understand your skills, we cannot guarantee any result. In some instances, after our review you might be required to complete the full range of studies after all. Such an outcome might be due to differences between the skills you hold and the skills as specified in the qualification you are seeking. We apply the same fee for RPL as for full time study for the qualification.

We apply the same fee for RPL as we apply for formal study. The saving for you is in the amount of time required to achieve your qualification. The intention is to give you the best outcome, but it does take up a lot of our time.

If you want to be considered for RPL, please contact us. We will give you a more detailed outline of what is required based on your own circumstances. We will provide you with our RPL kit. We encourage you to carefully read through the RPL kit prior to making a decision to seek RPL as you may find it easier to undertake assessments instead of gathering the documentation required for RPL.

We require you to make satisfactory arrangements for your tuition payments before we proceed with any RPL process. If you are not granted RPL for part of all of your desired qualification, then you will be required to undertake your classes and normal assessment tasks in order to reach your study goal. For some students, this study can be shorter than normal. This can happen if we find that you have some prior learning even if this is not sufficient to earn you RPL for a complete Unit of Competency. This is sometimes called Gap Training. Each Gap Training process is different just as your skills and experience will differ from other candidates.

Full-time study is mandatory for international students. This requires 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8.30 am to 4.15 pm). Depending on your circumstances, we can assist domestic students to study on a part-time basis. Part-time study is likely to extend the duration of the course beyond the duration listed at the top of this page.

This program has a variety of assessment methods including written, oral, practical role plays, and assessments in the workplace or simulated business environments.

BSBWHS201 Contribute to health and safety of self and others
BSBITU307 Develop keyboarding skills and accuracy
BSBWRT301 Write simple documents
BSBITU302 Create electronic presentations
BSBITU309 Produce desktop published documents
BSBADM307 Organise schedules
BSBITU306 Design and produce business documents
BSBFIA304 Maintain a general ledger
BSBFIA303 Process accounts payable and receivable
BSBCUS301 Deliver and monitor a service to customers
BSBWHS401 Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet legislative requirements
BSBWOR301 Organise personal work priorities and development
BSBITU402 Develop and use complex spreadsheets