Permaculture International Limited is happy to announce that Accredited Permaculture Training (APT™) is now a reality.

In July of 2003 Permaculture International Limited announced that it had received national accreditation for Permaculture training. That meant that accredited Permaculture courses were a possibility. Since that time the committee and contributors have taken the training to the next stage of implementation.

The PIL board its APT National Review Committee, in conjunction with Hortus Australia, have created a framework allowing knowledge, skills and practical experience in permaculture to be recognized and used to gain national qualifications.

This recognition will not affect the current delivery and qualifications of the Permaculture Design Course as designed and managed by the Permaculture Institute, or other Permaculture Organizations offering other forms of Permaculture Education. The framework of APT™ does not have its own curriculum (teaching programs, courses or content) but has a number of standards of performance at five levels on the Australian Qualifications Framework, Certificates I to IV and Diploma, which provide a guiding framework for people to develop their own teaching materials using their own approaches.

Accredited Permaculture Training is owned by PIL and therefore by the Permaculture Community and has been set up so that Hortus Australia will look after all the administration and record keeping, but provides none of the training and has no control over the APT™ package. This means that Permaculture practitioners can use the framework to design and deliver their own accredited training independent of or within the TAFE system, without having to establish their own Registered Training Organization (RTO).