Know your RTO obligations for 2021

Know your RTO obligations for 2021

ASQA has published an update and helpful checklist to help you stay on top of your RTO obligations and reporting requirements for 2021.

You can download ASQA’s 2021 RTO obligations checklist here.

If you need help with meeting your RTO’s obligations or reporting requirements, contact Audit Express on 1300735541.

 

Quality of training online: the next challenge for VET.

Quality of training online: the next challenge for VET.

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Delivering training online is not a new thing for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. For more than a decade, training providers have delivered both accredited and non-accredited training online, with the quality of online delivery varying from excellent to really poor.

The question of quality in the delivery of training online has recently been put into the spotlight with the release of ASQA’s 2020-2022 Regulatory Strategy, which outlines the key risk areas and high-risk qualifications that ASQA will focus on for the following three years. This strategy is updated annually, with changes made where required, to ensure that new issues or concerns in the sector can be addressed as they emerge.

Infographic by Audit Express, unpacking the ASQA 2020-2022 Regulatory Strategy.

The team at Audit Express have reviewed the ASQA 2020-22 Regulatory Strategy and have prepared an infographic to help you understand the key points and how this will impact your organisation. Click here to download a copy of this infographic.

There are a number of key themes in this year’s release of the strategy that you should be focussing on in your organisation:

  1. Online Delivery
  2. VET in Schools Delivery
  3. Priority Qualifications

If your organisation is delivering training online, you should be aware that this is considered to be ‘high-risk’ and that delivery of training online is now in the regulator’s radar.

Now is the time for you to be looking at the quality of the training programs that your organisation is offering online.

In partnership with educonomy, the team at Audit Express have researched best-practice approaches for online delivery from across the globe. We have looked closely at the way regulators of education in other countries around the world are regulating the quality of online delivery. This has helped us to build a suite of tools to be able to review and audit the quality of courses being delivered online here in Australia.

Click on the link below if you would like to have a chat with the team from Audit Express about how to improve the quality of training that your organisation is delivering online.

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FREE Professional Development Session

FREE Professional Development Session

SOLD OUT

Registrations for this event are currently closed as we have reached full capacity. Thank you for your interest. The VET Development 2018 PD Calendar will be launched soon, check out their website in the coming weeks www.vdc.edu.au.


FREE Professional Development Session!

Audit Express has teamed up with the VET Development Centre to deliver a one off FREE Professional Development Session titled ‘VET Professional Development – How much is enough?’

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This session will cover off on the most common questions that we receive about VET Professional Development, including:

• Understanding of what VET PD is
• What sources are acceptable for PD
• How to quantify
• Establishing an acceptable framework and plan for PD

As 2017 winds up, it is really important that Trainers and Assessors start planning their continuing professional development (PD) for the year ahead (2018) as VET practitioners.

As part of the Registration Standards, an RTO must ensure that all trainers and assessors undertake PD in the fields of the knowledge and practice of vocational training, learning and assessment, including competency-based training and assessment.

In this webinar we will explore what VET PD is, what forms of VET PD could be acceptable, how to quantify VET PD and explore some examples of best practice. Participants will also receive a complimentary 2018 VDC PD Planner.

At the end of this webinar, participants will gain:

​• An understanding of what is required of Trainers/Assessors in maintaining their VET Professional Development
• Insight into what they should do in the lead up to 2018 in planning their Professional Development.
• Participants will also receive a complimentary 2018 VDC PD Planner

You can find out more information, and you can register for the live webinar by clicking here >>> http://www.cvent.com/events/webinar-vet-professional-development-how-much-is-enough-/event-summary-6a4ab97a10ea49999cdaef0fd453c186.aspx

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Community Colleges Conference a success

Community Colleges Conference a success

We are pleased to announce that the annual Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Conference held in Melbourne was a great success.

The team at Audit Express tilt their hat to their colleagues at CCA for delivering their best conference yet, which comprised an impressive list of speakers that travelled from across the globe to present their thoughts, ideas and concepts to the conference delegates. There was a noteworthy attendance at the conference by the Federal Assistant Minister Karen Andrews, Shadow Minister Doug Cameron and Victorian Minister Gail Tierney – it is understood that our Victorian Shadow Minister Stephanie Ryan sent her apologies and was unable to attend due to being on her HONEYMOON <3 Congratulations Stephanie!

Other outstanding speakers included ASQA, the VRQA and our very own CEO at Audit Express Kevin Ekendahl!

We highly recommend attending this conference in 2018 to show your support for the community education sector, which we understand will be held in Sydney.

 

Audit Express are proud sponsors of the 2017 CCA Annual Conference

Audit Express are proud sponsors of the 2017 CCA Annual Conference

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CCA 2017 Conference Community Education: Investing in our Future

Audit Express are proud to be sponsoring the 2017 Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Annual Conference, which is to be held in Melbourne on 25-27 July.

This years conference theme is ‘Community Education: Investing in our Future’ which recognises the importance that education plays in people’s lives. The CCA Annual Conference is the premier event for Australian adult and community education providers, and is always hosted at an impressive venue with a great line up of speakers. The 2017 conference will be held at the award-winning conference venue ‘Citadines on Bourke‘ and the Conference Opening function and Annual Awards Dinner with both be held at the ‘Hotel Windsor‘, one finest 5 star venues in Melbourne, “the world’s most liveable city”.

The Hon Karen Andrews MP, Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills will open this years conference, which has an impressive line-up of keynote speakers and presenters including: (just to name a few)

  • The Hon Gayle Tierney MP, Minister for Training and Skills, Minister for Corrections
  • Susan Pascoe AMCommissioner, Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
  • The Hon Michael Lavarch AO, Commissioner – Risk, Intelligence and Regulatory Support, Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)
  • Professor Rodney Maddock, Monash Business School, and President, Economic Society of Australia, Victorian Branch
  • Peter Noonan, Professor of Tertiary Education Policy, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne
  • Lynn Glover, CEO (Director) Victorian Registration and Qualification Authority
  • Kira Clarke, Lecturer in Education Policy, Centre for Vocational & Education Policy, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
  • Dr Laurie Chesley, Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Grand Rapids Community College, Michigan USA
  • Dr Roberta Teahen, Associate Provost & Director of the Doctorate in Community College Leadership, Ferris State University, Michigan USA
  • Toni Cavallaro, Manager, National Collections Branch, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
  • Dr Robbie Lloyd, Community Relationships Manager, Port Macquarie Community College
  • Wendy PerryManaging Director, Workforce BluePrint
  • Kevin Ekendahl, our very own CEO of Audit Express, who is presenting on the Importance of Student Satisfaction in the Australian VET Sector

For more information read the 14 reasons why this year’s conference is a “must-attend” event.

Register for this years CCA conference before the 12th of June to receive an early bird discount, click here >>> http://cca.edu.au/what-we-do/2017-annual-conference/#registration

Community Colleges Australia

Community Colleges Australia

Audit Express, proud sponsors of the 2017 CCA Conference

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Audit Express proud to sponsor Community Colleges Australia PD and networking event

Audit Express proud to sponsor Community Colleges Australia PD and networking event

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The team at Audit Express are proud to be teaming up with our friends from Community Colleges Australia (CCA) to sponsor their upcoming Community Education Conversations Professional Development and Networking Event, which is to be held in Melbourne on Friday 12th May 2017.

There is an action packed agenda with a range of topics to be covered including:

Setting the scene: Julie Neeson, Southern Grampians Adult Education and Community College, Hamilton

Auditing in the new age – a presentation by Audit Express

Update on Skills First, by a representative of the VIC Department of Education and Training

The special case for community education providers in rural and regional Australia: challenges and opportunities, Dr Don Perlgut, CCA CEO

Community RTOs in Victoria: History, Scope, Scale, Success Factors and Prospects, By Dr Kaye Bowman, former Director of Research at NCVER and VET consultant

Foundations Skills Training Package: where are the consultations up to? Have your say – a session with Tim Rawlins, PwC Skills for Australia

What you need to know about the Commonwealth’s new VET Student Loans program, even if you will never use it

Community education providers and local and regional economic development roundtable discussion – come prepared to share your experiences

A new national community education infrastructure program – what’s happened since the last one in 2009?

Entrepreneurship and social enterprise

For more information about the event you can click here to download the Community Education Conversations flyer.

Cost:

This event is free for the members of Community Colleges Australia (CCA).
The cost for non-members to attend is $100 (plus GST).

If you are wanting to attend this event please keep in mind that spaces are limited!
You can reserve you space by emailing: admin@cca.edu.au

 

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