Developing Training and Assessment Strategies
Developing and using Training and Assessment Strategies A Training and Assessment Strategy (TAS) is a crucial document that outlines the RTO’s approach to deliver and assess a particular course, and therefore, helps the RTO to plan and manage training and...
ASQA’s Guide on Working with Consultants
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has published a guide aimed at helping RTOs work effectively with consultants. Whether the RTO is recently registered and its management new to the sector, or the RTO has been in operations for years,...
The purpose of RTO self-assessment
Self-assessment and planning to improve quality are key elements and integral parts of the RTO’s compliance program. Benefits of self-assessment: Identifies and builds on the strengths of the RTO Identifies and addresses non-compliances and areas for improvement Results in a...
RTO Organisational Charts
Several aspects of a RTO’s performance are regulated through the Standards for RTOs; therefore, responsibilities and accountabilities over these areas must be established. Governance RTOs must establish an effective structure through which the RTO’s goals are achieved. This includes the...
Foundation skills for RTO compliance professionals in 2023
The world of RTO compliance is anything but boring. Compliance plays a critical role in upholding ethical principles of the vocational education and training (VET) system, and the broader strategic and social purpose of such education service. Compliance is an...
Your Guide to Maintaining RTO Compliance
Compliance has always been a flimsy business for most RTOs. This is usually the case for training providers failing to comply with the minimum regulatory requirements concerning training standards, third-party arrangements, assessment practices, and learning resources, making them ultimately vulnerable to...
The relevance of compliance competent staff for RTOs
During the past several years, enormous amounts of resources have been spent to examine vocational education and training sector’s regulatory framework and realign PD programs to enhance a regulatory compliant workplace with a positive culture that adheres to ethical and...
ASQA’s Regulatory Strategy 2020-2022 and VET Compliance EvolutionASQA’s Regulatory Strategy 2020-2022 and VET Compliance Evolution
Regulatory requirements for training organisations have been under constant review and change for more than two decades, and we are once again immersed in another regulatory transformation of compliance principles, roles, expectations and values. Charles Darwin concluded in the eighteen...
Compliance and Ethical Behaviour Is a Vital Capability for Trainers
What does ethical behaviour look like to you? Despite many of us going through periodic compliance training, do you understand the critical implications to the success of your organisation and yourself as a trainer? Ethics is a core business driver....
Meeting the Needs in These Historic Times
Just a few weeks ago Scott Morrison addressed the need for a post-COVID educated workforce and pressed the virtual re-set button for the VET sector. The same sector that according to the Productivity Commission, has failed two generations of Australians....