RTO Resources

The Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) embrace legislative and regulatory requirements that:

• Set out the requirements that an organisation must meet in order to be an RTO;
• Ensure that training products delivered by RTOs
  meet the requirements of training packages or VET accredited courses, and have integrity for employment and further study; and

• Ensure RTOs operate ethically with due consideration of learners’ and enterprises’ needs.

These Standards currently consist of eight Standards. Under each Standard is a set of Clauses. To comply with a Standard, the RTO must meet each of the Clauses.

The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is the national policy for regulated qualifications in Australian education and training. It incorporates the qualifications from each education and training sector into a single comprehensive national qualifications framework. The AQF was introduced in 1995 to underpin the national system of qualifications in Australia encompassing higher education, vocational education and training and schools

The primary audiences for the publication are
organisations that develop qualifications and those that are authorised through government legislation in Australia to accredit and/or issue AQF qualifications and must use the AQF for these purposes.

Victorian Training Package Purchasing Guides

Within the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) each qualification holds a ‘Volume of Learning’ which is expressed as ‘amount of training’ within the Standards for Registered Training Organisations, i.e. time occupancy from commencement of a qualification through to completion, and is expressed in months or years.

The Victorian Training Package Purchasing Guides (also referred to as ‘Implementation Guides’) provides duration (Nominal Hours) for full qualifications and individual Units of Competency.

The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) are the national regulator for vocational education and training in Australia with the exception of:

• Western Australia where the regulator is the Training and Accreditation Council (TAC) www.tac.wa.gov.au
• Victoria where the regulator is the Victorian
  Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) for accredited training within the State of Victoria

As the national regulator for the vocational education and training (VET) sector, ASQA seeks to make sure that the sector’s quality is maintained through the effective regulation of

• vocational education and training providers
• accredited vocational education and training courses
• Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) providers, including those delivering English Language Intensive Courses to Overseas Students (ELICOS).

ASQA makes sure that the quality and reputation of Australia’s VET system is maintained through effective national regulation.

The Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) is a tool which assists both specialist and non-specialist English language, literacy and numeracy practitioners describe an individual’s performance in the five core skills of learning, reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy.

The ACSF has been integrated within Training
Packages and described in each Unit of Competency as Foundation Skills. Registered Training Organisations embed the ACSF within their learning programs and assessment practices to ensure that graduates hold the requisite level of the five core skills.

Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework

The Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework (CSfW) describes a set of non-technical skills, knowledge and understandings that underpin successful participation in work. Participation in work could be as an employee, as someone who is self-employed, or as a volunteer.

This set of non-technical skills, often referred to as generic or employability skills, contribute to work performance in combination with technical or discipline specific skills and core language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills.

National Centre for Vocational Education Research

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is an independent, not-for-profit Australian organisation that collects and analyses data and research on Vocational Education and Training (VET).

NCVER collects, manages, analyses, and communicates data and research on VET, provides evidence to inform and strengthen VET policy and practice, advises and works with stakeholders to promote better understanding of the VET sector, and publishes research findings on VET through the VOCEDplus research database.