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Regulatory body confirms aged care training top priority

Ensuring the quality of aged care training has been made a priority by the new national regulator of the vocational education and training sector, reports Natasha Egan From January, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) will scrutinise registered training organisations (RTOs) when they apply to register, renew or amend courses that include aged care qualifications. […]

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Why you should use a consultant to assist with your RTO

There is excitment at F4 Solutions as audits take place across the country. Our recent RTO Audits have come back with comments from the auditors saying how impressed they are with the systems in place. To some the AQTF in various states and NVR standards may look complicated and time consuming. However when you look for

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Training Packages at work

In June 2011 it was announced that Training Packages @ Work (TP@Work) was to publish its last newsletter, however due to the overwhelming support of VET bodies, government departments, industry skills councils, state and territory training authorities and other supporters, TP@Work has received funding to continue until July 2012. Funding from the Department of Education,

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e-learning workshops

Australian Core Skills Framework-Free PD Workshops. Professional development workshops on the Australian Core Skills Framework (and discussion of proposed changes to the yet to be released revised document) will be available from November 2011 to June 2012. Face to face workshops will be conducted in all capital cities and at a number of larger regional

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Minor changes of codes; how does this effect your RTO?

Recently I have had conversations with people within RTOs asking about how they go about delivering units that have had minor updates, but it has meant they have a last letter in the code changing, for example, HLTCC401A to HLTCC401B. No wonder there has been confusion; I have noted that not every registering body has

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Literacy and Numeracy assessment for Indigenous Learners

For my RTO followers who train and assess indigenous learners there are new products available for sale from the Indigenous Lead Centre. These Australian Core Skills (ACS) Indicator tools have been designed for teachers, trainers and/or language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) practitioners working with Indigenous learners. The activities have been contextualised and designed in plain

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Learnings from a 13 year old in entrepeneurship.

Janet Beckers has a wonderful video story about her 13 year old son and how he managed to raise funds for a hamburger. The story says so much and there are lessons for us all in developing our business. So I decided to share with you. Click the website to hear her story. http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2011/9-web-tv-lessons-from-a-13-year-old-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-14684 enjoy.

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