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Christopher Robinson
Chief Commissioner &
Chief Executive Officer
Melbourne
28.08.2015
ACPET National Conference2015
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Purpose of national VET regulation
• Ensure learners get quality training and assessment
• Ensure employers get skilled workers
• Protect Australia’s international reputation for high quality education
training
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ASQA’s regulatory activities
• Processed almost 27,000 applications
• Conducted 5000+ audits to check compliance
• Refused:
o Some 15% of new RTO applications
o Almost 6% of existing RTO re-registrations
• Issued almost 500 notices to cancel/suspend registration
• Made 220 decisions to cancel/suspend a provider’s registration
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ASQA’s Strategic Reviews
• Four national strategic reviews of training have been released
o White card for building and construction
o Aged and community care training
o Marketing practices of RTOs
o Early childhood care and education
• Finalising two more national strategic reviews
o security industry training
o equestrian training
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Conclusions from regulatory work
• Many RTOs struggle with assessment
• Short courses
• Some poor marketing practices e.g. VET FEE-HELP
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ASQA’s regulatory impact
• Number of RTOs in Australia has fallen from 4,947 in July 2011 to 4,573 in
December 2014 after decades of increasing numbers.
• Around 1,000 (or 20%) of the RTOs that existed in July 2011 are no longer
operating
• Reasons:
o direct regulatory action by ASQA
o an indirect effect of ASQA regulatory action
o reasons other than ASQA’s regulation
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ASQA’s regulatory impact
• Refusal rates are dropping as more poor providers leave VET
% applications refused
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
Initial application 31.4 14.9 12.2 9.2
Re-registration application
12.1 9.5 3.5 3.2
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ASQA’s regulatory impact
• Decisions to cancel/suspend RTO registrations are now levelling off
Proportion of RTOs (%)
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
Notices issued to cancel/suspend registration
0.3 3.4 4.8 4.0
Decisions to cancel/suspend registration
0.3 1.6 1.9 2.0
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ASQA’s regulatory impact
• Too many RTOs are still not compliant with all the Standards
• But levels of compliance are improving, especially since the new Standards
commenced in 2015
• Most RTOs become fully compliant after 20 days rectification, and that
proportion has also risen strongly
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
2014-15With new Standards
Fully compliant when audited (%) 19.6 23.9 26.4 33.1
Fully compliant after rectification (%)
72.9 77.8 83.4 87.0
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National VET Regulatory Reform
• More rigorous/faster action on poor quality providers
• Earned autonomy
• Boosted education/information to RTOs
• Examined regulatory practices/reduced red tape
• Automatic updates of equivalent training packages
• Fees not increasing
• Looking at system risk/harms to quality, not just risk of each RTO