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ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for 13 BSB Qualifications.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for ACM30317 Certificate III in Captive Animals.

Maintaining accurate and up-to-date provider information is a requirement for training providers.

Accurate delivery location data is important to provide students with surety and understanding about how and where your courses can take place.

• ASQA’s 2021-22 Corporate Plan
• Updated Users Guide for VET Accredited Courses
• Strategic Review of Online Learning: Insights Paper
• Mandatory vaccinations for residential Aged Care

The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) has developed information and resources to support the higher education sector in preventing sexual harassment and assault which can be useful for RTOs in safeguarding staff and student wellbeing.<

The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has published its Corporate Plan 2021–22, which sets out the national vocational education and training (VET) regulator’s strategic direction for the next four years.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for AHC30816 Certificate III in Arboriculture.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for a number of Early Childhood Education & Care qualifications.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for CPC60115 Advanced Diploma of Building Surveying.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for 6 qualifications from the ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for NWP30215 Certificate III in Water Industry Operations and NWP20115 Certificate II in Water Industry Operations.

Read the August 2021 edition of the ASQA Update newsletter.

When you apply to become an RTO, and under certain conditions, ASQA requires you to demonstrate financial viability by submitting the Financial viability risk a

If you missed the recent webinar - 'Spotlight On Assessment Validation' as part of the second Spotlight On series, the webinar recording is now available. 

The updates align to the recently endorsed Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021. 

Registered training providers are now able to offer select supplementary courses to overseas students without registering the courses on the CRICOS Register.

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for BSB42315 Certificate IV in Environmental Management and Sustainability.

Read the July 2021 edition of the ASQA Update newsletter.

In last month’s ASQA Update, we shared some of the common questions from our recent webinar discussing improvements to our regulatory practice.

Our Info Line team regularly receives questions regarding provider registration - in particular, change of scope and renewal applications.

Our Quality Assessors have been asked recently about the new process of information collection during a performance assessment (audit). This is part of our enhanced approach to regulation, through new assessment practices that use a broader range of evidence to understand the performance of your organisation.

Our Provider Roundtable met in June to discuss the enhanced approach and to review our draft Performance Framework and Stakeholder Engagement Strategy.

We continued to receive student feedback through the VET Student Experience Survey (VETSES), administered in partnership with the Department of Education Skills and Employment (DESE) and the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).

This month we continued to share weekly chapters in the latest Spotlight On series, aiming to assist providers to better understand how to enhance their practice when it comes to validating assessment.