Training Packages @ Work provides information on changes to the AQTF that strengthen the regulatory requirements underpinning the VET sector In December 2009, the Council of Australian Governments agreed to amendments to the AQTF that strengthen the regulatory requirements underpinning the VET sector.

The amendments introduce conditions and standards for initial registration of new training providers and strengthen the requirements for ongoing registration, including stronger financial viability and fee protection conditions.

The new AQTF Essential Conditions and Standards for Initial Registration and Continuing Registration were endorsed by the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment in June 2010 and came into effect from 1 July 2010.…read more

IBSA has released new learning and assessment resources for the delivery of Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

IBSA learning and assessment resources are designed to facilitate best practice teaching and learning, with the highest level of compliance.

Participant Workbooks and Assessment Materials have been developed on an individual unit basis. Participant Workbooks are highly interactive, and come with an accompanying web link that provides participants access to an up-to-date VET glossary and a range of delivery and assessment templates in Microsoft Word format.

Assessment Materials meet the TAE10 Training and Education Training Package requirements and the range of assessment required under the AQTF.

Click on the link below for more information:

http://www.licensinglinenews.com/newsletter/edition-83-october-2010/tae10-workbooks-available.aspx

The September issue of the VETAB eNewsletter contains news items on:

- the new AQTF Essential Conditions and Standards
- financial viability assessments
- the TAE40110 Certificate IV
- guidelines on issuing AQF qualifications
- security industry reforms
- upcoming professional development workshops

Select link below to read full newsletter:
http://www.vetab.nsw.gov.au/enews/Sept_2010.html

Following the May 2010 endorsement of the TAE10 Training and Education Training Package, the NQC has reviewed and updated its policy on the competencies to be held by trainers and assessors under the AQTF.

The new policy establishes the TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment as the new benchmark for AQTF trainers, and the Assessor Skill Set from the TAE10 package as the new benchmark for AQTF assessors.

Importantly, however, in the case of both trainers and assessors, the policy also allows for demonstration of ‘equivalent competencies’. The Council has agreed to a transition period of two years to allow providers time to adopt a planned approach to ensuring all their trainers/assessors meet the new requirements.

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Voc Ed Learning Group (VELG) will hold workshops around the country to unpack the latest AQTF Conditions & Standards for Continuing Registration commencing in mid-August…read more

Concerns have been raised by many colleagues amongst the RTO community regarding the AQTF2010 requirements for trainer and assessor qualification. The NQC secretariat notified stakeholders on July 7th the NQC determination on benchmarks for AQTF trainer and assessor competencies.

Full details of the announcement may be downloaded from here.

RTOs and VET practitioners should note in particular that the NQC guidance outlines that “the Council has agreed to a transition period of two years to allow providers time to adopt a planned approach to ensuring all their trainers/assessors meet the new requirements”. Organisations and individuals should feel no immediate need to change practice to meet AQTF requirements.

IBSA would further like to draw the attention of all RTOs and current holders of TAA04 and BSZ98 qualifications to the guidance provided in the bulletin:

It is important to note that the new policy includes provision for trainers and assessors to ‘demonstrate equivalent competencies’. In other words, it is not the NQC’s intention to require trainers and assessors to upgrade their formal qualifications if they are able to demonstrate they have gained the required competencies through continued professional practice. *

*(emphasis applied by IBSA)

NEW Customizable Assessor Guides

The Assessor Guides (produced by Shea Business Consulting), are the first of their kind anywhere, providing an invaluable resource for trainers and assessors delivering this important qualification. These new resources form companion volumes to the Learner Guides recently developed by Shea. The high quality noted Assessor Guides that comprise this new suite of resources, address employability skills and fully support the revised TAA04 Training Package (v2.1).

Each Assessor Guide includes diagnostic, formative and summative tools, templates and checklists to support assessors in gathering evidence and making judgements of competence against the core and elective units in the TAA40104 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and the Enterprise Trainer and Assessor Skill Sets. Like the Learner Guides, these Assessor resources have been specially developed to provide trainers and assessors with strategies to maintain compliance with AQTF 2007 requirements.

The Assessor Guides may be purchased by field and include a CD of the assessment tools as PDF files, and also in Word format for ease of customization. Individual links for each of the new Assessor Guides.

• TAA04 Enterprise Trainer Skill Set Assessor Guide Shea Series
• TAAASS301B Contribute to assessment Assessor Guide Shea Series
• TAAASS401C, 402C, 403B, 404B Assessment Field Assessor Guide Shea Series
• TAADEL402B Facilitate group based learning Assessor Guide Shea Series
• TAADES401B, 402B Learning Design Field Assessor Guide Shea Series
• TAAENV401B, 402B, 403B Environment Field Assessor Guide Shea Series
• TAA04 Assessor Skills Set Assessor Guide Shea Series

Certificate IV in Training & Assessment materials that have been built from the ground up.The TAA04 Training & Assessment (v2.1) Learner Guides have also been written by the highly respected Shea Business Consulting, with both Registered Training Organisations and their participants in mind.

In direct response to market feedback, each Learner Guide features underpinning text, assessment activities, employability skills, links to current industry sites and a mapping guide to each competency that will assist RTOs in their obligations to the AQTF 2007.

This active response to client comment has ensured that the Shea resources in support of the TAA04 (v2.1) are widely considered the best products of their kind currently available. In addition, for the first time ever, there are now a further two publications that individually cover both the Enterprise Trainer and the Assessor Skills Sets.

Listing of the FULL COMPLEMENT of Shea TAA04 Assessor and Learner Guides

Following the release of the new AQTF Essential Conditions and Standards, streamlined and improved supporting documents have been developed to assist RTOs, applicants and registering bodies transition to the new Essential Conditions and Standards. These include new User Guides for Initial and Continuing Registration, and consolidated National Guidelines for Registering Bodies with more advice on risk management and managing non-compliance.

Further information, including the new user guides, guidelines and frequently asked questions for RTOs and applicants are available at www.training.com.au

For more AQTF publications visit:

http://www.training.com.au/pages/menuitem5cbe14d51b49dd34b225261017a62dbc.aspx

For FAQ’s on the AQTF visit:
http://www.training.com.au/pages/menuitem7f6d0b4ce2611bea3771b51017a62dbc.aspx

The finalised conditions and standards of the Australian Quality Training Framework reforms will be available by mid June 2010.

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