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Australian VET statistics
• Approximately 4,650 Registered Training
Organisations
• Around 3 million students per year
• Over 386,000 apprentices/trainees (over
12%)
• 50% students government-funded, that
represent over 85% training $
• 1600 Nationally Recognised Qualifications
which cover 85% of Australian
occupations
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Unit of Competency are the link
• Industry to adopt a competency model
• Training provider to engage with
industry
• Design of training
• Evaluation of training
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Standards for Registered
Training Organisations 2015
1. Training and Assessment
1. Training and Assessment strategies and practices
2. Quality assurance
3. Certifications issuing and recognising
2. Obligations to learners and clients
4. Information provided to learners and clients
(Marketing)
5. Information to individual learners
6. Complaints and appeals
3. RTO governance and administration
7. Governance and administration
8. Legal compliance
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Trainers’ roles
• Trainer’s domains of performance:
• Design and deliver training
• Assess training
• Industry knowledge and collaboration
• Quality Systems and compliance
Teaching Assessing
Industry Compliance
Trainer
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Balancing the forces in VET
• Unbalanced towards industry:
• workplace specific skills
• Skills No transferable to other
environments
• Skills no linked to other learning programs
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Balancing the forces in VET
• Unbalanced towards Training provider:
• General skills without application context
• Out-of-date skills and knowledge
• Difficult to maintain standard outcomes
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Balancing the forces in VET
• Unbalanced towards student:
• Skills are no linked to workplace needs
• Learning objectives are no industry
relevant
• Overlaps University system