Beware of FAKE certificates and unregistered providers
ASQA published the following media release on October 4 2019: ASQA is aware that unfortunately, there are unqualified organisations issuing fake certificates in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.…
Updates to USI transcript for closed registered training organisations
Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) published the following news on October 4 2019: As part of a collaboration between the Australian Department of Education, ASQA and the National Centre for…
Unpacking ASQA audit reports and files (Part 4)
This is part 4 of a series. We are referring here to cases from different audits conducted by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA). 1. Units made compliant, qualifications become…
The VET Sector News
India is reforming education for the first time since 1986 – here’s why Australia should care India released a Draft National Education Policy (DNEP) in June 2019. It’s the first…
Unpacking ASQA audit reports and files (Part 3)
Let's look into what is actually going on in the audits and ASQA practices. This is part 3 of the ongoing series. We are referring here a number of cases…
The implications of ASQA being moving to a full cost recovery agency
ASQA and TEQSA are required by the Australian Government to transition from partial cost recovery to full cost recovery by 2020-21 making charging activities more consistent with the other areas…
The major issues with current legislative and regulatory standards (Part 1)
We are starting a series of articles discussing what is broken or can be improved in the current legislative and regulatory standards. We will also talk about how there should…
How will ASQA move from its current practices?
Pic: Courtesy @edissuesaus Note: The pic includes the famous saying of Ex-Chief Commissioner, Australian Skills Quality Authority in the Independent Tertiary Education Conference, Itec 2019 that held on 21-23 August…
RTO experiences with ASQA from the front line-Part 2
We are continuing to share the RTO experiences from the front line with the current regulatory body of vocational education and training, Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA). 1. Completely unjust…
A potential audit of the Australian Skills Quality Authority by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO)
The Australian National Audit Office is the national auditor for the Parliament of Australia and the Government of Australia. It reports directly to the Australian Parliament via the Speaker of…