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The Journey to Getting Your Registered Training Organisation (RTO) Accreditation

Initial RTO registration / Merinda Smith

If you’re interested in providing vocational education and training to learners in Australia, you need to have RTO accreditation. An RTO is an organisation or individual that is registered with a regulator, which could be the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) if training across Australia. Being registered means you can deliver nationally recognised training and […]

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How do I run an RTO?

Running an RTO can be difficult. Setting up an RTO can be even harder. It’s easy to feel stressed and overwhelmed when you set up a Registered Training Organisation. Registered training organisations (RTOs) are education providers approved by ASQA to deliver VET courses. To become an RTO and offer courses, you must complete instructions as

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RTO Financial risk assessment

Leave a Comment / Initial RTO registration, RTO Business Success / Merinda Smith

The RTO Financial risk looks at business viability. It is critical to the ongoing sustainability of an RTO and the investment it makes in its services. If RTOs are not viable, then this negatively impacts on the quality of its training and assessment outcomes and on learners. Operational and financial business standards therefore provide important protective

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Is it excitement of setting up your RTO, tension or fear?

Leave a Comment / Initial RTO registration, RTO set up / Merinda Smith

Excitement Excitement gets the juices running, and motivation to do all the right work for your application and auditors visit. Fear shuts people down, and stops the dreams. It can put us into a freeze situation; where we stop everything, or a flight situation; where we run away from what we are doing. In both

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Amount of Training – Complicated problems rarely require magical explanations

Leave a Comment / Compliance Tips, Initial RTO registration / Merinda Smith

Amount of Training One clue that someone doesn’t understand a problem is that they need a large number of variables and factors to explain it. However if you turn a complex situation into something overly simple, it shows ignorance of how the system works. The VET sector is constantly seeing people questioning what is the

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What structure do you have for your RTO?

Leave a Comment / Initial RTO registration, RTO set up / Merinda Smith

We are always in a constant state of change, even if you think something is robust, it still is vulnerable. Recently we moved to the country. This doesn’t affect the business and servicing clients, however it certainly was a huge change for everyone involved. Change causes all sorts of emotions to appear, and often shows

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Do I need skills or talent to develop an RTO?

Leave a Comment / Initial RTO registration, RTO set up / Merinda Smith

If you can learn it, it’s a skill. A talent is a group of aptitudes useful for some activities, such as to develop an RTO. An aptitude is a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. (sounds familiar doesn’t it?) Outstanding aptitude can be considered “talent”. An

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Is it time to STOP Internal Auditing?

Leave a Comment / Initial RTO registration, RTO set up / Merinda Smith

The other day whilst searching the internet an article caught my eye on auditing and stopping the internal audit. This post made me stop and catch my breath. It discussed how internal auditing contravenes some of W Edward Deming’s 14 points. Now I started my life reading and loving Deming, so this caused me some

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Changes to ASQA RTO Audit processes

Leave a Comment / Compliance Tips, Initial RTO registration / Merinda Smith

ASQA have made some changes to way they will be conducting their RTO Audit. Notice of intent During your RTO Audit at present, if an RTO is found non-compliant at a compliance audit ASQA provide an opportunity to recify. In most instances ASQA will give the RTO the opportunity to submit rectification evidence before issuing

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Researching VET information

Leave a Comment / Initial RTO registration, Newsletter / Merinda Smith

The Internet contains a world of information and often find it overwhelming when undertaking research, others love it. But, if you want to use web content as research material, you must look at the reliability and source of the material before using it for research. So many people write blogs and have their own opinions.

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