Merinda Smith

Merinda is an RTO Business mentor, trainer and consultant with over 20 years’ experience, assisting thousands of trainers, assessors and RTO personnel. Founder of F4 Solutions and now RTO Mentor. Renowned for her down-to-earth and passionate delivery of workshops and coaching, empowering you to gain the skills, knowledge and tools you need for your RTO to meet compliance and gain business.

ASQA presentations – Assessment

ASQA have recently upoloaded a series of presenations following the roll-out across Australia. This one is about Assessment. I found it to be something useful. Something to refresh our awareness of assessment, so decided to share with you all. I would consider using it as a tool in your Trainer/Assessor meetings, or as Professional Development for trainers

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Why do we have professional Development for Trainers?

Years ago we had a training qualification that taught us to stand in front of a group. We spoke from the slides, transparencies or whatever notes we had in front of us. Whilst technology has shifted and moved along in leaps and bounds, trainers may not have. Often trainers have remained standing and talking in

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Safe Work Australia Report on design related deaths

In all RTOs we are conscious of Safety and work with embedding safety systems into our RTO. We are no different to other businesses around Australia. It doesn’t matter if we train in areas that perhaps are not “high risk” we need to ensure safety of our staff, students, any visitors or contractors. Perhaps the lowest

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So what is REMOVED or CHANGED from the new RTO standards?

Firstly I will refer to what has been removed. Continuous Improvement and monitoring of client services no longer is in the standard. Access of records of progress for students and the Governance arrangements. The standards are more outcomes based. The detail has been removed. Interestingly the RTO objectives and business planning has also been removed.

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Regulator launches website for new Standards

For the past few years RTO’s have been calling out for assistance in how to comply with the standards. the VET reform is listening. The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has launched a new website providing detailed information about the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015. Chief Commissioner Chris Robinson said the website—www.asqa.gov.au/standards—demonstrated ASQA’s

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