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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 ...

New E-standards for Training website

Sunday, November 27th, 2011 Posted in Training, Training Package | No Comments »

  The E-standards for Training website has been redesigned and now features improved navigation, simpler categorisation of material, and a fresh and clean site layout. The new website makes it simple for users to understand that the project is concerned with undertaking research on ...

Matching education and training to industry needs

Sunday, November 27th, 2011 Posted in Skills, Training, Training Package | No Comments »

 At a time when many sectors of Australian industry are experiencing critical skills shortages a new workforce driven framework has been developed to provide large employers, and small-to-medium enterprises, with the ability to get the right people with the right ...

New National body for early childhood education and care

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Training, Training Package, Uncategorized | No Comments »

  New National body for early childhood education and care ACECQA is a national entity, which will oversee important changes to early childhood education and care and school age care in Australia.  On 1 January 2012, the 'National Quality Framework for Early Childhood ...

More Help for Mature Age Workers

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Skills, Training, Training Package | No Comments »

The More Help for Mature Age Workers initiative, a complementary program to Experience+ Training, allows eligible employers to apply for reimbursement of costs associated with skills assessment for a mature age worker capped at $2200 (including GST). The skills assessment ...