RTO Core Values: Necessity or Luxury?
Last week, I was delivering a session about advanced assessment techniques and while addressing different evidence collection methods, a participant asked me: “do we get extra points during a regulatory audit if we perform better than the minimum requirement? If...
10 reasons why VET practitioners should attend the VET Compliance Summit
If you care about your personal development then the VET Policy, Compliance and Funding Summit 2016 is a must attend event. Here are 10 reasons why VET practitioners should attend this powerful Summit: Understand how the new ASQA’s audit model will affect...
The wrong perception about VET embedded into the VET Student Loans Program
The new VET Student Loans Program, recently announced to replace the VET-FEE-HELP, shows a perception that is hurting the VET sector: training is a cost. The debate around funding training and education is focused on cost. The actions taken by...
The VET Reform we never had
During the last 10 years, the vocational education and training sector has been presented with a set of so called “reforms”. Instead of them promoting improvements in the system, they have contributed to a weaker delivery of education and training....
Systematic Review of Training Products
Training providers must adopt a continuous review process to ensure the training solutions they offer remain relevant and effectively support learners to achieve their goals. For Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) this process also takes a fundamental role in maintaining compliance....
Perpetual Beta: A Challenge for VET
Changes in VET regulation, funding models, training packages, stakeholder’s expectations, the current landscape of volatility and accelerating change means it is imperative that we adopt fresh skills and embrace new learning. In fact, our environment of constant disruption has made...
VET Assessment Practices Summit 2016 Report
Insources’ first VET Assessment Practices Summit held on 28 and 29 April was an outstanding success. The event attracted more than 100 private training organisations, resource developers, professional bodies, not-for-profit organisations, enterprise RTOs, public training providers, service skills organisations, universities...
Finding time to mentor in an RTO environment
We all know how difficult it is to find the time for our daily work duties, managing compliance, and running a business in a very competitive market, so when are we going to find time to mentor others within the...
Newly endorsed Cert IV TAE – Same Issues
On 1 April the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) approved what is considered “… an important update to the Training and Education (TAE) Training Package that will ensure the VET workforce has better skills in the future”. The National...
What makes a good trainer?
The effectiveness and even the integrity of the TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment has been the centre of public discussions for a few years now. A lot of people ask me to describe how this qualification can help...