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Hello and welcome VET News,
OK, we have some movement at the station! ASQA has released their long awaited model for self-assurance! Are you ready…………… and it’s a diagram. It requires effective training and assessment delivery at its core and is surrounded by a circle of continuous improvement. It also includes four foundational elements against which providers should conduct self-assurance / continuous improvement activities including leadership / governance; staff capability and development; student engagement and support; and industry and/or community engagement.
Look, I don’t know. I was a little underwhelmed. It is early days, and I am sure there is much more detail to follow when it is fully developed. When I read “draft self-assurance model”, I thought, you beauty! I was a little excited at the prospect of an insightful quality assurance model specifically designed for our very own VET sector. Anyway,, it’s a diagram now, but I am sure there will be more to come. I do like the simplicity, but I think providers will need a lot more guidance to apply the model to their business. If ASQA are looking for some inspiration, they are welcome to look at our own recommended model for self-assurance that we published in August last year (A systems approach to RTO self-assurance).
Labor won the election. To be honest, not the outcome I was hoping for. Anyway, I will watch with interest how they implement their agenda to have public TAFE as the “backbone of our vocational educational system”. I really think this is a joke and they are waaay over-estimating the capacity of TAFE. I think it will need an ‘all hands on the wheel’ approach if we are going to get through this emerging skills shortage and support the nations productivity. There is going to be a flood of migrants to backfill skills and the non-TAFE part of the sector will be critical to training these people. I am sure Labor will work this out once they have their feet under the desk. Lets hope.
Good training,
Joe Newbery
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