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Communiqué for the COAG Skills Council Meeting (20 September 2019)
In the last COAG Skills Council Meeting in Melbourne on 20 September 2019 all federal,…
Reasonable adjustments in the learning environment
What is a reasonable adjustment? In vocational education and training (VET), the term reasonable adjustment…
Australian visas exploited by “criminal people smuggling syndicates”
https://www.vetsector.com/post/australian-visas-exploited-by-criminal-people-smuggling-syndicates
Australia installs first space laser optical ground station in southern hemisphere
Recently, my colleagues and I swung a half-tonne telescope onto the roof of the physics building at the University of Western Australia. For a tense moment, my career hung from…
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The top problems that the Australian VET sector is facing
The VET sector in Australia is growing in scale and sophistication every year. The Australian VET sector is facing several…
The VET Sector News – September 2019
ASQA’s Sample AQF documentation gets updated to meet the requirements of third-party arrangements The ASQA Fact Sheet Sample AQF documentation…
Now and into the future
Approximately 12 months after the commencement of COVID-19 restrictions in Australia, only about one quarter (25.1%) of the surveyed RTOs…
I want to voice my opinion – Your letters and emails to us
In this newsletter, we are selecting this email that we received from one of our subscribers genuinely questioning the current…
I paid for it – why don’t I own it? – the copyright trap, article by Margaret Ryan, Lawyer and Trade Marks Attorney
If your business commissions a graphic artist to create a logo and brand collateral for the business, who owns the…
Converting the audit quality practices to system-centred rather than individual-auditor-centred
When we talk about "audit quality practises," we talk about the factors that influence the outcomes of audits conducted on behalf of a regulatory body, such as the behaviour of…
CAQA Resources – New training and assessment resources
This month's new training and assessment resources: HLT54121 Diploma of Nursing CPC60220 Advanced Diploma of Building and Construction (Management) CPC50220 Diploma of Building and Construction (Building) CPC50320 Diploma of Building…
Best selling resources of this month
These are our top 10 best selling resources of this month: HLT54121…
The major issues with current legislative and regulatory standards (Part 1)
We are starting a series of articles discussing what is broken or can be improved…
How does quality assurance differ from compliance (Part 3)
In this third and final part of our “compliance and quality assurance,” articles, we are…
To be implemented by 2030, the government has published a roadmap for a “data-driven society.”
The federal government issued Australia's first data strategy and associated action plan, outlining a long-term…
Opinions
WA has allocated $16 million for international education
As part of a new support package, the state of Western Australia has earmarked around AUS$16 million to assist the state's international education sector. It was announced that a support…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking input on a proposed anti-plagiarism software merger.
In a statement released Thursday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) expressed reservations over Turnitin's proposed acquisition of Ouriginal. It was in March 2021 that Turnitin first revealed its…
Part 2- How compliance and quality assurance are two separate but intertwined concepts
When we look at the current Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015, the clauses relevant to Registered Training Organisations’ regulatory compliance, the reporting and governance practice, they all clearly underpin…
The VET Sector News – December 2019
Poorer and regional Australian students lag behind richer peers, report finds Poorer Australian students are 18 months behind their better-off peers at school, a report by Deloitte has found. And…
Message from the CEO (23 March 2022)
Message from the CEO We welcome you to our March edition of the VET sector magazine. In this edition, there are articles discussing the NCVER submission, CEO declaration of Compliance,…