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New ASQA fact sheet published – Regulating RTO delivery of elective

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in Article, Training Package | No Comments »

The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has recently published clarification on the requirements for ASQA registered training organisations (RTOs) wanting to deliver elective units. As a general rule, ASQA RTOs can offer/deliver units as electives within the packaging rules of a ...

Training Package User Guides

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 Posted in Article, Training Package | No Comments »

Service Skills Australia has developed a series of Training Package User Guides to help registered training organisations (RTOs) effectively implement our training packages, and deliver training that meets industry's needs. This is a free resource for RTOs which aims to improve ...

Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package (CPC08)

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 Posted in Article, Training Package | No Comments »

The Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package (CPC08) was endorsed by the National Skills Standards Council (NSSC) on 26 October 2011, and published on Training.gov.au on 29 November 2011. The Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package can be downloaded from the ...

Financial Services Training Package Version 2 (FNS10)

Monday, January 9th, 2012 Posted in Article, Training Package | No Comments »

The Financial Services Training Package Version 2 (FNS10) was endorsed by the National Skills Standards Council (NSSC) on 8 July 2011, and published on Training.gov.au on 24 November 2011. Some changes include: FNS30710 Certificate III in Life Insurance - Qualification removed as ...

Upcoming Training Packages

Monday, January 9th, 2012 Posted in Article, Training Package | No Comments »

Interested in finding out what training packages are currently reviewed, going through the continuous improvement process or have been submitted to the National Skills Standards Council (NSSC) for endorsement? Then have a look at the following: Service Skills Australia: Tourism, Hospitality and Events ...

Enterprise-based Productivity Places Program: A watershed in skilling Australia’s

Monday, January 9th, 2012 Posted in Article | No Comments »

  A partnership between Government and Australian enterprises to up-skill existing workers and lift enterprise productivity has been hailed as a watershed by the nation's 11 Industry Skills Councils (ISCs). In strained economic times, one of the first areas of expenditure to ...

Workshops for new training package TAE10

Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Posted in Article, Training Package | No Comments »

The National Skills Standards Council (NSSC) has endorsed version 2.0 of the Training and Education Training Package (TAE10). The package includes the new Diploma of Vocational Education and Training which is significantly different, and not equivalent to the ‘old’ Diploma of ...

BSB07 Business Services Human Resources Qualifications

Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Posted in Article | No Comments »

The completion date for the HR Review has been extended to the 30th September 2012 to incorporate the findings of a number of global research projects currently in progress, these include: HR Competency Study – release of the sixth round results ...

IBSA Project Management Qualifications

Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Posted in Article, Innovation | No Comments »

  Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) has contracted Ability Associates Australia to undertake the review of the Project Management qualifications and units of competency within the Business Services Training Package. The review aims to identify whether the qualifications and units of ...

Kitchen & Bathroom Resources [DRAFT] available in 2012

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 Posted in Article, Resources | No Comments »

A glimpse of soon-to-be released Kitchen and Bathroom learning and assessment resources at the recent Furnishing Teachers’ Advisory Group (FURNTAG) conference held in Albury.   {Draft version}   http://www.kbcabinetmaking.com.au/