Government targets VET FEE-HELP scammers
The government has announced legislative and other changes to deal with rogue training providers and better protect students. The new measures will intent to: stop providers from offering incentives to students, like cash and laptops, to get them to sign...
What’s the Primary Driver of Innovation?
Innovation is the creation and implementation of something new and different. Innovation is a fresh approach to solving a problem and application of the solution. Innovation is both thinking and doing. Innovation is follow-through, the commercialization of a good idea....
VET FEE-HELP RTOs Under ASQA’s Microscope
Targeted audits of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) will address allegations of unscrupulous marketing and other practices intended to exploit the Australian Government’s VET FEE-HELP program. Assistant Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Birmingham said the national regulator, the Australian...
Delegating Regulatory Responsibility to RTOs
ASQA currently has delegation arrangements in-place with 27 RTOs – mostly TAFEs in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.RTOs were required to meet the following criteria to be eligible for a delegation of regulatory responsibility: the RTO must...
ROI Calculations for Technology-Based Learning
It is difficult to imagine a world of learning and development without technology, and investment in technology continues to grow at astonishing rates. Its growth is inevitable and its use is predestined. But these investments attract attention from executives who...
The USI and Reporting Requirements
Each time your students complete nationally recognised training, you must collect and verify their Unique Student Identifier (USI) before you can confer a qualification or statement of attainment. When you submit your data according to the new VET data collection...
Achieving Business Alignment
By Dr Patti Phillips Today’s business community, and particularly the talent development community, are relying more on analytics to make decisions about programs and projects than ever before. Yet many people still ask: How do we ensure the right measures...
Tips for Success as a Mentor
If you want to succeed as a mentor, first seek to understand yourself and others. —John C. Maxwell There are many types and styles of mentoring, from the traditional “mentor” and “mentee” approach to mentoring partnerships across the generations. However,...
Program Objectives (Part 2)
Level 2 Learning ObjectivesThere is increased interest in evaluating the acquisition of knowledge and skills. These drivers include growth in the number of learning organizations, emphasis being placed on intellectual capital, and increased use of certifications as a discriminator in the selection process....
Program Objectives (Part 1)
Program objectives are the fundamental basis for evaluation. Program objectives drive the design and development of the program and define how to measure success. Program objectives define what the program is intended to do and how to measure participant achievement...