Welcome to the December 2020 issue of the VET BI report.
New RTOs registrations and other activity were back to a normal levels this month. One RTO suspended but others given second chances, as are most these days.
New RTOs
There were 9 new RTO registrations again this month, with 7 of them in NSW! Will they change the NSW number plates to “The No-Lockdown State”?
NSW (7)
45657 Resilience NSW (Safety)
45658 Ironbark Training (Broad Scope)
45660 Meditech Training College Pty Ltd (Welfare)
45659 HCR Training (Building)
45662 Gomeroi Education and Training (Agriculture)
45661 Leading Training Services (First Aid)
45663 Vincimus Security Pty Ltd (First Aid)
VIC (1)
45664 Melbourne Training College (Security)
WA (1)
52928 Stark Training (Civil Construction)
Restrictions
Registration suspended
1412 Papillons Beauty Centres Pty. Ltd As Trustee For Papillon Unit Trust (Hobart and Suburbs, Beauty)
22060 Hospitality Staff Assessment (Melbourne South East, Broad Scope)
Scope restriction
5205 Maisie Kaufmann Learning Centre (QLD North Coast, Foundation Skills)
Requirement to maintain specific industry accreditation
41338 Australian Harbour International College (Sydney CBD and Inner Suburbs, Broad Scope)
Requirement to retain detailed records
40794 Australian Study Link Institute (Melbourne CBD and Inner Suburbs)
41280 Unico Education Pty Ltd (Sydney Western Suburbs, Welfare)
Training component changes
The automotive services package got a major update, and mix of further updates in construction and other areas.
Qualification Changes
Note that the numbers here are not just the count of qualifications but the count of units changed within those qualifications, including every unit (including possible electives) within a new qualification replacing an old ones, so the figures appear inflated compared to previous reports but are more representative of relative volume of change.
A major overhaul for the business, construction, agriculture and forestry sectors: Business (2091), Building (1025), Agriculture (512), Forestry (164).
There were a large number of changes in other areas too – December must be the time for training package (re)writing. Better check our scope too as there are too may to list.
Skill Sets
Food production and processing had a big month for skill set updates: Agriculture (19), Meat (12), Forestry (5).
Accredited Courses
A focus on business and employment courses this month: Training (14), Business (11), Welfare (8).
Unit Content
A large and wide range of units were updated in December: Business (669), Equipment (665), Building (659), Forestry (407), Agriculture (394), Demolition (140), First Aid (111), Plumbing (97), Safety (72).
Again it might be worth checking your units on TGA as the list is too long this month!
Funding changes
Very few new government funding contract were signed in December:
TAS
3094 gotafe (Broad Scope)
3046 RMIT University (Broad Scope)
NSW
91533 Step Into Training Services (Broad Scope)
Reports
You can view the reports below for all details on recent activity and changes.
Two RTOs suspended this month – have ASQA found their good knife set again?