Effective from 29 June 2021 via the Education Services for Overseas Students (Exempt Courses) Instrument 2021, Registered Training providers are able to offer select supplementary courses to overseas students without registering the courses on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS). The instrument means non-CRICOS registered providers can deliver the ESOS-exempt courses to overseas students, if the provider meets the domestic requirements for registration and delivery.

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Updated forms for course accreditation are now available on the ASQA Website. The updates align to the recently endorsed Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021. Applications submitted on or after 1 August 2021 must use the latest version of these forms.

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The National Skills Commission has analysed more than 1300 VET training package qualifications using natural language processing techniques to identify similarities between them. The analysis covers qualifications from all 56 training packages from the National Register of VET from December 2020. The outputs of the model are available from the Exploratory Analysis of VET Qualification Similarity searchable dashboard.

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The Tasmanian Traineeships and Apprenticeships Committee (TTAC) has recently approved a revised ‘Policy 13 – Supervision under a training contract’.
The TTAC Policy 13 – Supervision under a training contract’ outlines the supervision requirements for training contracts and provides clear advice to employers and supervisors concerning their obligations in relation to the supervision of apprentices or trainees, in delivering relevant, appropriate training and in providing a safe work environment.

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RTOs must provide TAC with an annual declaration which indicates that the RTO meets the requirements of the Standards and if not, the action taken to address the non-compliance. The declaration covers the RTO’s entire scope of operations, including services provided on its behalf through third party arrangements, and for all locations. The RTO Annual Declaration on Compliance is now open and a link to access the declaration was emailed to the RTO’s Legally Responsible Person on 8 July 2021. Responses are due by 30 September 2021.

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The most recent data on apprentice and trainee training activity shows that commencements for the December quarter 2020 increased by 141.5% compared with the December quarter 2019. The total number of apprentices and trainees in-training as at 31 December 2020 was 297 920, an increase of 13.9% from 31 December 2019. The steep increase coincides with the introduction of the Australian Government’s Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements wage subsidy, which reimburses 50 per cent of the wages employers pay a new or recommencing apprentice or trainee for a 12-month period from the date of commencement, to a maximum of $7000 per quarter. The subsidy is available to employers who meet eligibility requirements.

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This publication provides a summary of data relating to students, programs, subjects and training providers in Australia’s government-funded vocational education and training (VET) system.
In 2020, 1 191 400 students were enrolled in government-funded VET, an increase of 3.5% from 2019.
An estimated 7.0% of the Australian resident population aged 15 to 64 years participated in government-funded VET in 2020. Participation was highest among those aged 15 to 19 years (at 18.4%).

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The Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation, or NERO, is a new experimental dataset, developed by the National Skills Commission. It provides timely information on employment in 355 occupations across 88 regions in Australia. Until now, this type of data was only readily available every five years as part of the ABS Census of Population and Housing. With NERO, the insights can be produced monthly.

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Job advertisements fell 0.5% (or 1,200 job advertisements) in June 2021 to stand at 241,900. This is the first month-on-month fall in national recruitment activity since job advertisements started recovering from the COVID-19 low point observed in April 2020. The level of recruitment activity nationally remains significantly elevated compared to pre-COVID-19 levels, up by 43.8% (or 73,700 job advertisements). Online job advertisements stand 3.5 times higher than at April 2020, up by 172,500 job advertisements.

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

• CHC: Community Services
  Revised 20th July 2021.
• ICP: Printing and Graphic Arts
  Revised 20th July 2021.
• BSB: Business Services Training Package
  Revised 23rd July 2021.

Updates have been made to some Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Qualifications.

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The Tasmanian Government is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and motivated individuals interested in being considered for appointment as a member of the Tasmanian Traineeships and Apprenticeships Committee.

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