Compliance Hub

Online and AI-generated LLND tools can speed up pre-enrolment, but the suitability decision stays with your RTO. What the 2025 Standards require and a seven-step model for human review.

Implicit units, explicit units, imported electives and skill sets: what your RTO's scope of registration on training.gov.au actually lets you deliver, and the checks to make first.

RTO governance goes beyond policies and procedures. Under the 2025 Standards, owners and executives must demonstrate informed decision-making, effective oversight and personal accountability. Here's what ASQA expects from the people at the top.

At the VET Quality and Innovation Summit and aXcelerate Day in Brisbane, I did something that doesn’t come naturally to me. I networked, properly, for two straight days. Anyone who knows me knows that’s not usually my scene. I don’t love a room full of strangers, and small talk has never been a strength. But somewhere across those two days, I found myself genuinely energised. Confident. Asking questions in sessions that I could tell from the pause before the answer, hadn’t be

ASQA has identified five key areas where RTOs are falling short in performance assessments. We break down the issues, what they look like in practice, and the actions RTOs can take now.

ASQA is seeing common mistakes in AI-assisted RTO submissions, from generic wording and unsubstantiated claims to inaccurate corrective actions. Explore what this means for RTOs, how human oversight can reduce compliance risks, and access our free AI Self-Assessment Checklist.

Fifteen tabs, three screens and nothing for dinner. On the small deficiencies that creep in when good people move too fast, why fatigue is a quality risk and not just a wellbeing one, and the eight things I actually do about it.

A Principle That Is Easy to State and Hard to Apply Standard 2.4 of the 2025 Standards requires RTOs to make reasonable adjustments so that students with disability can access and participate in training and assessment on an equal basis. Making reasonable adjustments also supports compliance with the Disability Standards for Education 2005. Few would argue with the principle. The difficulty is in the application. Day to day, across a team of trainers and assessors, the hard q

The Risk ASQA Is Actively Chasing ASQA has firmly placed work placements on its regulatory hit list. In its most recent update, the regulator named work placements a risk in focus, language it uses intentionally when it is actively receiving reports and already acting on them. Those reports tell a consistent story; providers are not meeting their work placement obligations, and students are speaking up about it. If your RTOs deliver qualifications with mandatory work placemen