2025 Standards for RTOs - Skills Education's Standards Hub 1.1

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Quality Area 1 - Training and Assessment

Quality training and assessment engages VET students and enables them to attain nationally recognised, industry relevant competencies.

Division 1 - Training

Requirements

Standard 1.1

Outcome Standard

(1) Training is engaging, well-structured and enables VET students to attain skills and knowledge consistent with the training product.

Performance Indicators

(2) An NVR registered training organisation demonstrates:

(a) training is consistent with the requirements of the training product;

(b) the modes of delivery enable VET students to attain skills and knowledge consistent with the training product;

(c) training is structured and paced to support VET students to progress, providing sufficient time for instruction, practice, feedback and assessment;

(d) training techniques, activities and resources engage VET students and support their understanding; and

(e) where the training product requires work placements or other community-based learning, necessary skills and knowledge are able to be attained in that environment.

Risks

Assuming each student has the same skills, experience, and learning preferences.
Applying an approach that does not take a holistic view of the student cohort, learning environment and training product requirements when designing training.
Failing to consider Australian Qualifications Framework requirements regarding volume of learning, including taking into account the time required to increase students’ likelihood of successfully achieving the learning outcomes and ensuring that the integrity of the qualification outcomes is maintained.
Failing to have sufficient regard to industry regulator licencing requirements in designing training.
Insufficient assurance that online training or assessment will deliver quality outcomes – for example:

compliance with the training product when it requires skills to be attained in a physical environment
the appropriateness of online practical skill development for high-risk courses or industries
the potential for condensed or diluted training engagement, compromising the depth and quality of learning
insufficient personalised support or guidance critical for effective learning.

Failing to review your design and delivery of training after cohorts have completed the training product, and missing opportunities to incorporate lessons learnt and continuously improve.
Accelerating or shortening training without allowing students sufficient time for skill development and knowledge application.
Not undertaking a review of purchased resources to ensure full coverage of training product requirements or failing to contextualise purchased resources to reflect your RTO’s specific training delivery practices