Professional development, simplified.
Education Matters is the membership for VET educators and trainers who want quality, relevant PD — without the hassle. Stay compliant, stay curious, stay current.
Everything a VET professional needs to grow
Continuing professional development isn’t just good practice — for RTO staff, it’s a compliance requirement. Education Matters makes meeting that obligation convenient, affordable, and genuinely useful.
Designed by qualified educators and VET experts, our content covers learning facilitation, student support, engagement, and the full spectrum of compliance obligations for RTOs in Australia.
The new Standards require ongoing PD. We make that easy.
An Education Matters membership gives you a simple, documented way to meet your compliance obligations under the 2025 Standards for RTOs and the TAE Training Package requirements.
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“VET students are trained, assessed and supported by people who are qualified, skilled and committed to professional development”
Quality Area 3 — 2025 Standards for RTOs“…all trainers and assessors undertake continuing professional development to maintain current skills and knowledge in training and assessment, including skills and knowledge relating to engaging and supporting VET students”
Outcome Standard 3.2.2(c) — 2025 Standards for RTOs“Assessors working with the TAE Training and Education Training Package need to maintain professional knowledge about the education and training industry, and specifically of the VET sector.”
TAE Companion Volume Implementation Guide 2022Choose your level of access
All plans are annual subscriptions for individual named members. RTO bulk pricing available below.
- ✓Learning & Resources Hub access
- ✓Exclusive members’ sessions (education & compliance topics)
- ✓“Let’s talk about…” PLG discussions
- ✓Catch-up recordings of members’ sessions
- ✓Standards Hub
- ✓PD certificates
- ✓RPL Matters membership — free yr 1
- ✓Everything in Foundational
- ✓Full PD Library of on-demand recordings
- ✓Auto-registration to all Skills Education live webinars
- ✓Auto-registration to all PLG discussions
- ✓Attend or catch up — total flexibility
- ✓RPL-specific Resources House
- ✓Ongoing RPL Matters membership included
A learning ecosystem built for VET
Every membership gives you access to a rich, growing collection of content and opportunities.
What members say
There is more quality content here than I ever experienced doing my Masters of Training and Development… it’s almost like a full TAE course!
You were right — I attend more than 5 webinars a year and this subscription covers that and gives me much more. Thank you!
I've got the Elite membership and for anyone considering a subscription - do it! It's well worth it. I get everything, no more to pay and no hassle.
I have either learnt something in every session or I have been reminded of a useful bit of information, so well worth the membership.
Love your work Skills Education! Refreshing to see a focus on building knowledge and skills as an educator.
Our staff are really loving Education Matters — they’re finding lots of interesting and relevant things!
Elite RTO Membership — the whole team, one subscription
Give your entire training staff Elite access — auto-registration to all webinars, the full PD Library, RPL Matters, the Learning Hub, and the Standards Hub — all under a single RTO membership priced by team size.
Elite RTO membership includes:
- ✓Automatic registration to ALL live webinars - no more to pay per session
- ✓Full PD Library access with recorded webinars
- ✓Education Matters Learning & Resources Hub
- ✓RPL Matters membership for all named staff
- ✓All Professional Learning Group discussions included
- ✓A neat way for the RTO to demonstrate meeting Outcome Standard 3.1.2b - the RTO facilitates PD for all staff
Larger team? Contact us for custom Elite RTO pricing for teams bigger than 25 people, or for bulk subscriptions for Education Matters Foundational level.
Join Education Matters today
Quality, relevant, effective PD. Designed for VET professionals, by VET experts. Start with Foundational at $350/year, or go all-in with Elite.