Quality in VET – A National Imperative
Industry Skills Councils (ISCs), as the developers of Industry Training Packages, have recently undertaken a project to identify whether greater specification of training delivery and assessment requirements within individual qualifications and/or units of competency, would improve the quality of Training...
Changes ahead for trainers and assessors
Requirements for all vocational trainers and assessors are changing to make sure they have the skills and knowledge to support the development of adult learners’ language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills. IBSA confirms that by July 2014 the unit TAELLN411 Address...
Purpose and benefits of Training Evaluation
Trainers and training providers know that their success depends on demonstrating the value of training investment. The simplest way to prove training’s value to a client is to document that the training has achieved its desired outcome, through evaluation. Evaluation...
Volume of learning – not a nice-to-have feature, but an AQF requirement
ASQA has published the following on 12th March 2013: “ASQA has published a new response to a frequently asked question regarding compliance with ‘suggested volume of learning’ for AQF qualifications.Question: Does ASQA audit RTOs for compliance with the suggested volume of learning for AQF qualifications?Answer:...
Exploring reliability and validity of assessments in VET
Under the Australian VET Framework, and the AQTF, assessments used by Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) must compliant with the “Principles of Assessments: fair, Flexible, reliable and valid”. Trainers and RTO managers asked me with singular frequency: “How can we ensure...
The benefits of outsourcing admin and compliance work
The Australian VET industry consists of a great variety of providers. Many small and medium organisations have a high degree of technical specialisation and service niche markets. These small and medium sized RTOs generally have professionals with many years of...
Review of standards for the regulation of VET
The National Skills Standards Council (NSSC) is currently conducting a review of the National VET Framework. NSSC started a series of consultation activities with VET stakeholders on June 2012, and recently had published an analysis of 114 submissions received. A...
Why are we going to have a Unique Student Identifier (USI)?
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) collects and holds records of student enrolment and achievement in the VET sector, but these records are not mapped to an individual over the lifetime.The inability to access enrolment and achievement data...
Choosing a training provider? ASQA’s Consumer checklist.
The National VET Regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), has recently released a “Choosing a training or education provider Fact Sheet”, which includes a “Consumer Checklist” to guide potential students/consumers to make an informed decision. The mentioned document explain...
Evaluate Training Programs
Training must produce its intended outcome. That is, a specified change needs to have occurred after training is completed. If you cannot validate the training, then you must seriously question why it should be done at all. Much training is...