Trainer’s upgrade: a cost or a solution?
Since the Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills, the Hon Karen Andrews MP, announced the most recent amendment that affects the requirements for trainers and assessors to work in VET, many RTOs’ managers and trainers have considered this as...
Collecting relevant assessment evidence
Don’t tick the wrong box! Assessment systems continue to be the most challenging area in an RTO’s operations and yet the most critical to demonstrate quality outcomes. When dealing with assessments in Australia’s VET environment, we need to consider both the assessment...
Why provide feedback to students?
Many trainers find the topic of providing feedback confusing, and some colleagues only look at regulatory implications of the trainers’/assessors’ feedback, so I thought it might be a good topic for review. To better understand feedback, let’s define what it...
RTO Core Values: Necessity or Luxury?
Last week, I was delivering a session about advanced assessment techniques and while addressing different evidence collection methods, a participant asked me: “do we get extra points during a regulatory audit if we perform better than the minimum requirement? If...
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....
Systematic Review of Training Products
Training providers must adopt a continuous review process to ensure the training solutions they offer remain relevant and effectively support learners to achieve their goals. For Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) this process also takes a fundamental role in maintaining compliance....
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...
VET Assessment Practices Summit 2016 Report
Insources’ first VET Assessment Practices Summit held on 28 and 29 April was an outstanding success. The event attracted more than 100 private training organisations, resource developers, professional bodies, not-for-profit organisations, enterprise RTOs, public training providers, service skills organisations, universities...