Course Owner and Developer Briefing: ASQA

ASQA’s Training Provider Briefings will return for a third year and be hosted at 13 metropolitan and regional locations across Australia. Two webcasts will also be held allowing those training providers who are unable to attend a briefing in-person to participate from anywhere in the world. The briefings will again discuss important compliance-related issues and […]

Regulating Offshore Delivery of VET

International education is estimated to represent Australia’s third largest export industry. While the majority of Australia’s international vocational education and training (VET) delivery is to international students based in Australia, the volume of VET delivery to offshore students has grown significantly over the past decade. Deloitte Access Economics (20151) estimated the value of international offshore income to be around[…..]

Student Work/Assessment Retention Requirements

Completed student assessment items mean the actual piece(s) of work completed by a student or evidence of that work, including evidence collected for an RPL process. An assessor’s completed marking guide, criteria, and observation checklist for each student may be sufficient where it is not possible to retain the student’s actual work. However, the retained[…..]

ASQA’s New Audit Model

During 2016, ASQA developed and tested a new approach to audit with an increased focus on the student experience and the practices of RTOs. The initial implementation phase and evaluation of the new model has now concluded and ASQA is now preparing to fully implement the new model during 2017 (ASQA, 2018). During the initial implementation[…..]