Reviewing the Standards for RTOs 2015

The new Standards for RTOs 2015 are here and with them comes another attempt to regulate some core processes in the RTO world.

When we talk about core processes, at the top of the list is the strategy to deliver and assess a particular training program.

When the Standards for NVR RTOs 2011 were introduced in 2011, we formally defined the strategy as the Training and Assessment Strategy (TAS). Before this, we called it the Learning and Assessment Strategy, Learning and Assessment Plan, Training and Assessment Plan, etc.

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Effective from the 1st April 2015, ASQA's has updated its own general directions for Learner Transition, previously known as "Teach out period".

The new document outlines General Direction and arrangements concerning:

• the commencement of a new learner in a training product which is no longer current (i.e. the training product has been superseded, removed or deleted from the National Register); and
• the time-frame in which a RTO must complete the training, assessment and AQF certification documentation issuance for learners enrolled in a training product which is, or becomes, no longer current.

These arrangements are made in accordance with the provisions of Clause 1.26 of the Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015 (the Standards for RTOs 2015).

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