The Ministers at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Industry and Skills Council agreed; to new regulatory Standards for training providers and regulators. The new Standards represent another important step towards an effective risk-based regulatory system and introduce important changes that strengthen industry engagement, improve the quality of training and reduce the regulatory burden on training providers. The new Standards also increase protections for students who want to undertake nationally recognised training and strengthen the requirements for the delivery of training and assessment qualifications – qualifications which underpin the overall quality of training delivered in the VET system.
The new standards will be implemented from 1 April 2015 for existing RTO’s. We will provide our PADI RTO Trainers with a Newsletter detailing the changes to the current standards and how these changes will affect our trainers business. You can find more information about the revised standards here.