RTO standards 2015 / Interpretation of standards

Read ASQA responses to frequently asked questions on the Standards.

RTOs must ensure that training and assessment is only delivered by trainers and assessors who have current knowledge and skills in vocational training and learning, and all trainers and assessors undertake professional development.

These requirements are set out in clauses 1.13–1.16 of the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015.

Credit transfer is offered for a unit of competency or module, and not for a qualification. Units of competency are not assigned an AQF level.

Where a student has been found competent in a unit of competency, they have demonstrated they have met all requirements of that unit. A student may complete a unit of competency as part of a qualification and then seek to have that unit recognised in another qualification that may be of a different AQF level.

Providing the qualification packaging rules allow it, an RTO must accept and provide credit to the student for that unit of competency.