Conducting validation in your training organisation
What is validation? Explanation: Checking that the assessment tools, methods, judgement, evidence and processes to ensure that the training product…
No Regulation or Bad Regulation – has ASQA failed as a VET Regulator?
We are starting this article by quoting the now very famous speech of MP Laming in the Australian Parliament:…
ASQA’s Regulatory Strategy 2019–21
Highlights: The strategy identifies two target areas and five strategic initiatives Target area 1: Trainer and assessor capability, identified as…
The VET regulator Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) gone rogue
The national vocational education and training (VET) sector regulator Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), has been criticised by the Chair…
Your trainer and assessor files (Part 4 of 5)
In the last newsletter, we discussed the following: ASQA Guidelines on “industry currency.” How to stay up to date in…
The Quality Indicator data
The Quality Indicators provide valuable data for RTOs to identify areas for improvement in training and assessment services and to…
First aid training under review after the death of a footballer from heat stress
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) urged registered training organisations (RTOs) that give first aid training to revise their practices…
How to avoid becoming another ASQA statistic
There are currently 3837 RTOs in Australia, down from over 4,400 RTOs in October last year. If your ASQA audit…
Your trainer and assessor files (Part 3 of 5)
In the last newsletter we discussed the following: The definition of vocational competency ASQA Guidelines on “vocational competence” The three…
Ways to make the vocational education system more effective
The review led by the Honourable Steven Joyce, the former Skills Minister in New Zealand, looked at ways to improve…
