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...
Updating Assessment Systems
In order to assess (measure) something, we need to know what we want to measure and how to measure it. How do we measure learning? How do we measure competency? I would like to define learning as “changes in behaviour...
Planning for a compliant 2016
In 2015, RTOs were challenged by an inadequate and volatile regulatory framework and a dysfunctional VET market and during 2016, they will continue to have an unprecedented effect. In Australia, more than 80% of the VET market is government funded,...
ASQA releases findings from VET FEE-HELP
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has released the findings from its VET FEE-HELP audit project. The project was launched in April after the authority recorded an increase in the number of complaints it had received against registered training organisations...
8 Reasons Why to Have Remote Workers
Is your management team wrestling with the decision to let people work from home? It can be a big change, but it’s also a positive and necessary one. Increasingly, people are viewing “work” as something you do, rather than somewhere...
Six Tips for Working With the Brain to Create Real Behavior Change
Discover key principles for learning design that maximize the brain’s capacity to learn, build memories, and develop habits. The latest report from the research firm Bersin by Deloitte shows that more money is being spent on learning and development than...
Delivering standalone units that are part of a qualification
The regulation for delivering elective units and standalone units has been very inconsistent among different regulators. In the past, RTOs wishing to deliver elective units within a qualification as a standalone unit were required to formally apply to add the...