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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
ASQA Infringement Officers Set to Enforce Compliance
The decision to issue an infringement notice is one of a range of enforcement actions ASQA can take in order to enforce compliance with the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011. An ASQA infringement officer may issue an...
Trainers’ Skills Development
Often people come to our courses looking for advice to transition into training after having done something else for a while. Becoming a vocational educator, a trainer, a facilitator, a performance improvement professional is not going to happen overnight. It...