On 26 November 2024, former students from International Institute of Education and Training Pty Ltd (IIET) trading as EDU VET and Gills College Australia Pty Ltd trading as Elite College Australia and/or Sterling Business College were issued Notices of Intent to Cancel.
IIET:
6818 former students
Relating to 7206 qualifications
For the period of 23 January 2023 to 14 November 2024
Gills College:
3364 former students
Relating to 3577 qualifications and/or statements of attainment
For the period of 7 January 2022 to 21 December 2023
Urgent action is required by former students.
Past students who have any of the following qualification(s) and/or statement(s) of attainment from IIET must respond no later than 7pm (AEDT) 7 days after receiving the written notice dated 26 November 2024:
CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support
CHC33021 Certificate III in Individual Support
CHC43021 Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention
CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support
CHC43115 Certificate IV in Disability
CHC43121 Certificate IV in Disability Support
CHC43315 Certificate IV in Mental Health
CHC52015 Diploma of Community Services
CHC52012 Diploma of Community Services
CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health
Past students who have any of the following qualification(s) and/or statement(s) of attainment from Gills College must respond no later than 7pm (AEDT) 7 days after receiving the written notice dated 26 November 2024:
AUR30620 Certificate III in Light Vehicle Mechanical Technology
AUR40216 Certificate IV in Automotive Mechanical Diagnosis
CHC30121 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care
CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support
CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support
CHC43115 Certificate IV in Disability
CHC43315 Certificate IV in Mental Health
CHC50121 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
CHC51015 Diploma of Counselling
CHC52015 Diploma of Community Services
CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health
HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
HLTAID011 Provide first aid
HLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
There is also a notice of non-urgent action required by former students of Gills College.
Past students who have any of the following qualification(s) and/or statement(s) of attainment from Gills College must respond no later than 7.00PM on Monday 6 January 2025:
BSB30120 Certificate III in Business
BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business
BSB40320 Certificate IV in Entrepreneurship and New Business
BSB40520 Certificate IV in Leadership and Management
BSB50120 Diploma of Business
BSB50420 Diploma of Leadership and Management
BSB60120 Advanced Diploma of Business
BSB60420 Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management
BSB80120 Graduate Diploma of Management (Learning)
CUA40720 Certificate IV in Design
ICT40120 Certificate IV in Information Technology
ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology
ICT60220 Advanced Diploma of Information Technology
SIT30821 Certificate III in Commercial Cookery
SIT30222 Certificate III in Travel
SIT40521 Certificate IV in Kitchen Management
SIT50116 Diploma of Travel and Tourism Management
SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management
Combined with the recent Luvium Pty Ltd cancellation, about 17,000 qualifications to be cancelled this month.
Luvium, IIET and Gills College have all had their registrations cancelled.
For more information, see the:
“Children and teenagers under the age of 16 will be banned from social media after the government's world-first laws passed parliament late on the final sitting day of the year.
That means anyone under the age of 16 will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the government and the Coalition argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
Under the laws, which won't come into force for another 12 months, social media companies could be fined up to $50 million for failing to take "reasonable steps" to keep under 16s off their platforms.
There are no penalties for young people or parents who flout the rules.
Social media companies also won't be able to force users to provide government identification, including the Digital ID, to assess their age.
"Messaging apps," "online gaming services" and "services with the primary purpose of supporting the health and education of end-users" will not fall under the ban, as well as sites like YouTube that do not require users to log in to access the platform.”
We suspect ever-resourceful young people will find a way anyhow!
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In June 2024, TEQSA issued a request for information to all Australian higher education providers. This request asked for a credible institutional action plan addressing the risk generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) poses to award integrity. TEQSA received a 100% response rate to this request, and this toolkit, Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice, is the first resource developed from the analysis.
The toolkit includes 3 dimensions: Process, People and Practice. Each dimension can be read individually, in any order, or in conjunction with the broader toolkit. It seeks to share ideas and experiences to support institutions in effectively and ethically integrating gen AI into teaching and learning, while also managing the risks these evolving technologies pose to assessment integrity.
See the toolkit
People who graduate from the Vocational Education and Training (VET) space experience an ‘income uplift’ of $11,800 p.a., according to a new report from Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA).
The Strong and Responsive VET Pathways report provides findings on the economic, employment and further study outcomes for 2019-20 VET graduates over various student characteristics and approximately 500 qualifications.
First Nations VET graduates gain a median income uplift of $13,000. Female graduates had a 17 percentage point increase in their employment rate. In addition, around 1 in 5 graduates with disability (21 per cent) progressed to higher-level VET study.
VET graduate cohorts with the highest median income uplifts were apprentices and trainees with an increase of $25,800 and graduate diploma/certificate holders with an uplift of $23,700.
Regional and remote graduates had a higher median income uplift than those in major cities, receiving $12,900 and $12,700 respectively against the major city graduates’ figure of $11,500.
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The revised Standards for RTOs have been released as a Policy draft. Consultation on the Credential Policy and the Compliance Requirements closed 20.10.24 with amendments still possible.
Skills Education and Training Tools will be updating the range of PD and compliance tools and templates as soon as the revised Standards become legislation. As yet, they are not.
We are conscious that until the revised Standards become legislation, they are subject to some change and we do not want to push out draft materials and/or incomplete options that will need to be updated at the RTO end in due course.
We will continue to support our Education Matters membership base and customers of our PD and compliance tools and templates as new arrangements become finalised.
It is expected that the revised Standards will be enacted 1.1.25 and they will come into full regulatory effect 1.7.25. This means RTOs must be ready to demonstrate compliance with the new requirements on 1 July 2025. Until then, any ASQA audits have confirmed that they will be against the existing Standards for RTOs 2015.
Convenient navigation of the revised SRTOs
We have created a Ready Reckoner that compiles the DEWR and ASQA information into one handy document - You can print the ten (10) tab spreadsheet if required.
See the Ready Reckoner for the Revised Standards for RTOs
While a lot of training organisations look to Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) testing in the first instance, there is much more required.
This information sheet lays out what the Standards for RTOs 2015 require, what the National VET Regulator suggests, and seven practical steps as guidance recommendations for practice and compliance with the requirements. It also outlines the coming requirements in the new Standards for RTOs (coming into full regulatory effect 1.7.25) and gives a starter list for a services directory that can be built upon and contextualised to be specific to your RTO and students.
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