Can an RTO still enrol new students in CUV40303?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 12 October 2012. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in CUV40303?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

CUV40303 Certificate IV in Design

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

CUV40303Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Design
not equivalent
CUV40311Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Design
equivalent
CUA40715Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Design
equivalent
CUA40720Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Design
equivalent
CUA40725CurrentCertificate IV in Design

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

CUV40303CUV40311not equivalent11 October 2011
This qualification replaces CUV40303 Certificate IV in Design. Significant changes made to facilitate greater differentiation between this qualification and the Certificate III in Design Fundamentals Overall number of units reduced from 18 to 15 Core units substantially changed and reduced from 10 to 7 New units in the core include: • BSBCRT301A Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills • BSBDES401A Generate design solutions • CUVPRP401A Realise a creative project Units deleted from the core include units already in Certificate III in Design Fundamentals: • BSBDES301A Explore the use of colour • BSBDES302A Explore and apply the creative design process to 2D forms • BSBDES303A Explore and apply the creative design process to 3D forms

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for CUV40303 and for its training package CUV03 (release 3.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

CUV40303_R1.docxCUV40303 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
CUV40303_R1.pdfCUV40303 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012

Is CUV40303 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether CUV40303 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What CUV40303 is made of

training.gov.au lists 25 units for CUV40303. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 25 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBDES301A	Explore the use of colour	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES302A	Explore and apply the creative design process to 2D forms	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES303A	Explore and apply the creative design process to 3D forms	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES304A	Source and apply design industry knowledge	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES305A	Source and apply information on the history and theory of design	`N/A`	not current
BSBDES402A	Interpret and respond to a design brief	`N/A`	not current
BSBOHS201A	Participate in OHS processes	`N/A`	not current
CUFDIG201A	Maintain interactive content	`N/A`	not current
CUFDIG303A	Produce and prepare photo images	`N/A`	not current
CUVCOR04B	Originate concept for own work and conduct critical discourse	`N/A`	not current
CUVCOR09B	Select and apply drawing techniques and media to represent and communicate the concept	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS03B	Produce computer-aided drawings	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS04B	Produce technical drawings	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS05B	Use typography techniques for design work	`N/A`	not current
CUVCRS16B	Prepare text and graphic files for print processing	`N/A`	not current
CUVDES04B	Integrate colour theory and design processes in response to a brief	`N/A`	not current
CUVDSP07B	Research and apply techniques for graphic design	`N/A`	not current
CUVDSP11B	Research and apply techniques for illustrative work	`N/A`	not current
CUVDSP14B	Research and apply techniques for the design of products	`N/A`	not current
CUVVSP02B	Research and experiment with techniques to produce calligraphy	`N/A`	not current
CUVVSP59B	Research and experiment with techniques to produce wood objects	`N/A`	not current
LMFDN4001A	Produce drawings from design concepts	`N/A`	not current
LMFDN4002A	Produce line and component production drawings	`N/A`	not current
LMFDN4003A	Produce patterns and/or templates	`N/A`	not current
LMFDN4005A	Work within a furniture design team	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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