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....
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,...
Reflections about current rapid review of ASQA’s performance
On 30 October 2019 the Australian Government announced $18.1 million towards the reform of ASQA to support the fair, transparent and effective regulation of the VET sector, and high-quality student outcomes. The Department of Education, Skills and Employment announced a...
Risk Based Internal Auditing
A risk-based approach Successful organisations are those that have the ability to identify and manage risks, before those risks become destructive realities that impair the organisation’s reputation and its ability to operate. Risk-based internal auditing aims to deliver increased value...
RTOs using a third party: What do you need to know?
Under the Standards, RTOs can arrange with other organisations (third parties) to deliver training and assessment services, provide educational support services, or recruit students. All services delivered by a third party must be documented in a written agreement (Clause 2.3)....