New! – RTO and ESOS Obligations Checklists – Published

ASQA have published updated obligation checklists for 2023 including for both RTO and ESOS obligations. These checklists are great to pin up to remind you about important obligations. These include obligations such as:

• updating your contact details on asqanet
• reporting your annual vet activity (AVETMISS) data to NCVER
• submitting your annual declaration on compliance
• submitting your 2022 quality indicator data
• paying ASQA your annual registration charge (ARC)
• checking if your registration will expire this year.

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Annual Declaration on Compliance (ADC) – 17 April 2023

The ADC will begin on 17 April 2023 and close on 17 May 2023.
Prior to this process, ASQA encourage all RTOs to check their records with us are current on asqanet and to update them if required. Completing the declaration is a regulatory requirement for all RTOs. If your registration is managed by QCAA, there is a separate submission process.

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Do you need to update your RTOs details?

Keeping your details accurate ensures students and other interested parties can access current information on the National Register, MySkills and Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students about your RTO and the courses on your scope of registration. ASQA also require that you notify them when changes occur to meet part of the conditions of your RTO’s registration.

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Requesting a transition extension

When training products become superseded, RTOs have a set period of time to transition to the new training product. This transition period gives you time to develop and validate new resources, apply to deliver the new training product (if applicable), complete delivery for students in the superseded training product, and transfer any ongoing students. In some instances, RTOs may apply to ASQA to request an extension to the transition period.
The webform for requesting a transition extension is limited to one qualification. RTOs seeking an extension for more than one qualification from the same training package can email their request and supporting evidence to transitionrequest@asqa.gov.au.

You should apply for a transition extension at least 90 days prior to the current transition period ending.
For more information email transitionrequest@asqa.gov.au

Australian Digital Capability Framework

The Australian Digital Capability Framework describes the broad digital capabilities required by the Australian workforce. Using common, easily understood language, and a simple, intuitive structure, the Framework can be used for multiple purposes, thereby aligning and strengthening a wide variety of efforts to build the digital capability of the nation’s workforce.

Further detail on the development and potential application of the framework is provided in the Digital Capability for Workforce Skills Final – Report 2022.

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Government-funded VET enrolments decrease

The latest NCVER statistical report shows that in the first nine months to 30 September 2022, 1,055,585 students were enrolled in government-funded VET, a decrease of 6.1% from the same period in the previous year.

A total of 1,026,450 of these students were enrolled in nationally recognised VET, down 6.4% from the same period in 2021. Enrolments in non-nationally recognised VET totalled 52,200, a decrease of 5.8% from January to September 2021.

Overall, there were 1,245,845 government-funded program enrolments in Australia, down 5.6% from the same period in 2021.

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Energising Tasmania Training Market Development Fund

The Energising Tasmania Training Market Development Fund 2023 is open and will close 2pm on Thursday, 13 April 2023.

The fund supports the capacity building of training providers (including trainer recruitment, upskilling trainers and supporting trainers to relocate) as well as developing new courses, programs and delivery methods that meet the needs of the energy industry.

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Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation (NERO) – experimental

This Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) dashboard provides experimental data on the current employment by occupation in each region, highlighting changes in comparison with historical levels, using an emerging technique known as nowcasting.

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Adding value to competency-based training

Competency-based training (CBT) has been fundamental to how accredited VET is delivered in Australia for the last three decades or so and over this time it has garnered both advocates and critics. This research examines the strengths and weaknesses of CBT as it is currently applied to the Australian VET system and whether there is cause to consider a broader approach to defining and describing competence and hence considering how best teaching and learning in VET is delivered and assessed.

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Research messages 2022

Research messages is a summary of research produced by NCVER each year. This year’s compilation includes a range of research activities undertaken during 2022, comprising of research reports, summaries, infographics – both static and interactive, occasional papers, presentations, webinars, consultancies, submissions, the 31st National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference ‘No Frills’, and various additions to VOCEDPLUS knowledge resources.

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Training Package Updates

The following training packages have been updated on training.gov.au:

CHC – Community Services – 01/Mar/2023
HLT – Health – 01/Mar/2023
SIT – Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Training Package – 02/Mar/2023

Infection Control HLTINF006 HLTINF007 – change to implementation date

RTOs will now have the option to deliver either the superseded unit OR the new unit from 1 March 2023 to 30 June 2023.

The packaging rules for the 28 qualifications and two Skills Sets affected will be updated on 1 March 2023 to allow either unit to be delivered between the above period, and again on 1 July 2023 to allow only the new unit from 1 July 2023. Visit the link below for more details.

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Extended transition period

AHC30916 Certificate III in Landscape Construction

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for the qualification AHC30916 Certificate III in Landscape Construction for all ASQA registered RTOs with scope for delivery for continuing students only.

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Qualifications Update

View the latest updates to the Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Qualifications.

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Business Opportunities/ATMs

ATM ID: AIHW/NMHSPF and PST
Agency: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Category: Education and Training Services
Description: National Mental Health Service Planning Framework Support Project

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AusTender materials are released by the Department of Finance. AusTender materials are subject to change and should be verified on the AusTender website to ensure the information is up to date and correct: www.tenders.gov.au.

Webinar -How to turn schools into hubs of social and emotional learning

30 March,13:00 (Paris time)

Social and emotional skills are indispensable for individual success and peaceful, prosperous societies. How can schools and teachers support their development?
Our webinar on 30 March will discuss how to help students develop skills such as curiosity, creativity and empathy to ensure they can succeed in school, work and life.
The discussion follows new results from the international Survey on Social and Emotional Skills on important building blocks to establishing effective social and emotional education.

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2023 Tasmanian Training Awards coming soon

Be part of the annual awards for excellence in vocational education and training.

The Tasmanian Training Awards are conducted annually by Skills Tasmania and recognise outstanding achievement in the vocational education and training sector. They recognise and reward the achievements of students, teachers/trainers, registered training organisations and employers.

As the premier awards for VET in Tasmania, they are the perfect opportunity to showcase the commitment that individuals, registered training organisations and employers contribute to VET.

Detailed information about this year’s awards will be on the Skills Tasmania website in March, with nominations opening on Monday, 27 March 2023.

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WEBINAR: Adding value to competency-based training

Date: Wednesday 29 March, 1.30pm – 2.30pm ACDT

Cost: Free

Competency-based training (CBT) has been fundamental to how accredited VET is delivered in Australia over the last 30 years or so, and over this time both advocates and critics of this approach have emerged.

Taking the format of a panel discussion, this webinar will cover issues highlighted in a recent NCVER research report Adding value to competency-based training including whether there is a need to:

• have a broader conception of what it means to be competent.
• one that explicitly acknowledges the importance of ‘non-technical’ skills and capabilities and if so,
• what would this mean for the capabilities required by trainers to teach and assess non-technical competencies.

The discussion will also explore whether the CBT approach should be applied to all qualifications, and whether there is a place for graded or proficiency-based assessment.

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AVETRA’s 25th Annual Conference

Melbourne- 27 & 28 April 2023

VET + Challenging times, Challenges of our time and Challenges that lie ahead is the theme for this year’s AVETRA Conference.

The AVETRA 2023 Conference showcases scholarly and applied research of, for and from within vocational education. It is the leading annual gathering of researchers, VET practitioners and leaders, education policy makers and representatives from industry, unions and employers in Australia and
New Zealand.

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32nd National VET Research Conference – 2023

Wednesday 19 to Friday 21 July 2023

RMIT University Melbourne City Campus (Storey Hall).
‘No Frills’ is a well-known annual national conference and a key part of NCVER’s engagement with the VET sector. It is an opportunity to showcase research to VET practitioners and build the capacity of researchers. It provides participants with a forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge and be a part of an event that encourages thought-provoking presentations and opportunities to network in a relaxed and friendly environment

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