Navigating Change: Adapting to the Standards for RTOs 2025
24 January 2025 | 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
About this webinar
Prepare to lead your RTO confidently through the transition to the Standards for RTOs 2025. Upgrade your systems to address the significant changes, minimise disruptions, and ensure your organisation is audit-ready.
The Standards for RTOs 2025 are a cornerstone of Australia’s latest VET reform, designed to enhance the quality and integrity of training delivery. These changes will impact governance, workforce planning, training and assessment, learner support, and industry engagement.
Join Javier Amaro, a renowned RTO quality and compliance expert with over 20 years of experience in managing and auditing private and public RTOs. Javier has successfully supported RTOs through multiple VET reforms, including the AQTF reforms of 2001, 2004, and 2007, the introduction of the National VET Act in 2011, and the transition to the Standards for RTOs in 2015.
This live webinar will equip you with the tools and knowledge needed to transition seamlessly to the Standards for RTOs 2025 while maintaining operational excellence and compliance.
Speaker
Javier Amaro
CEO – Insources Group
Javier is the director and founder of Insources, a privately owned Australian training and consulting organisation. He has more than 18 years experience in the vocational and technical education world and has contributed to the Australian VET sector by designing and delivering more than 500 training programs to training managers, supervisors, facilitators, trainers and assessors
What will you learn
In this four-hour webinar, we’ll explore the critical elements of the new standards and provide actionable strategies for a successful transition:
- Transition to Standards for RTOs 2025: Understand the key regulatory changes and how to align your RTO’s systems and processes with the new standards.
- Quality Assurance: Master quality assurance principles and practices that drive compliance and continuous improvement.
- RTO Workforce Planning: Learn how to develop an effective RTO Staff Capability Matrix to meet the workforce requirements of the new standards.
- Learner Support: Understand the updated requirements for learner support and access templates for creating policies and procedures that meet compliance expectations.
- Industry and Community Engagement. Explore strategies to strengthen partnerships and enhance alignment with industry and community needs.
Objective
LEARNING
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to explain the overarching intent of the Standards for RTOs 2025 and their role in enhancing quality and compliance.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to outline at least three significant differences between the Standards for RTOs 2015 and the Standards for RTOs 2025.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to describe the principles of quality assurance and their application to the revised standards.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to identify the workforce capabilities needed to align with the Standards for RTOs 2025.
APPLICATION
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to create a transition strategy that outlines actionable steps for aligning their RTO with the Standards for RTOs 2025.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to integrate quality assurance mechanisms into their RTO’s operations to monitor compliance effectively.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to design and implement a capability matrix to assess and enhance staff qualifications and skills.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to draft and implement policies and procedures that address the new learner support requirements.
IMPACT
As a result of implementing the strategies from this webinar, RTOs will demonstrate improved audit compliance outcomes, with fewer non-conformities identified in external audits within the next 12 months.
As a result of adopting revised learner support strategies, RTOs will achieve at least a 10% increase in learner satisfaction scores withi
As a result of workforce planning improvements, at least 90% of RTO staff should meet or exceed the required competencies within one year.
As a result of implementing quality assurance systems, RTOs will reduce the time spent on compliance activities by 20% within six months, while maintaining or improving quality standards.
Webinar Agenda
Duration | Session 1 (Duration 2 hours) |
20 minutes | Understanding the Standards 2025 New Structure |
60 minutes | Training Design and Delivery Requirements |
20 minutes | Facilities, Resources, Equipment and Assessment Requirements |
20 minutes | Vet Student Support |
Duration | Session 2 (Duration 2 hours) |
30 minutes | VET Workforce: Implementing Effective RTO Staff Capability Planning |
30 Minutes | RTO Governance: Leadership, Compliance, and the Fit and Proper Test |
60 Minutes | Are You Ready for an Audit under the New Standards? |
The session was incredibly informative and engaging! The content and activities were well-structured, easy to follow and directly applicable to RTOs. Javier and the other presenters were knowledgeable and engaging and the overall experience was very informative and enjoyable!
Miss Connor Boehme
This was a very well organized and well-presented learning session. Javier was great, showed great patience and answered all questions timely and clearly.
Janet McCracken
I really appreciated the resource documentation and how the presenter went through each of those documents and how to utilise them
Zoe Solomon
Very informative
Peter Trikaliotis
Informative, clear discussion which allowed questioning
Rondel Dancer
I found the webinar extremely helpful. Javier did an amazing job answering questions and explaining each step.
Deborah Brodtman
Thank you for the very informative session. I look forward to registering for sessions like this in the near future.
Neil Williams
The resources provided were very practical and are going to be extremely useful as I prepare for my re-registration audit. Thanks for running such a valuable webinar.
Nicole Maloni
Javier is an excellent presenter who knows his subject matter and how to present it so that everyone can understand. Because this particular topic is complex additional time was required. Javier did something that does not happen very often - he asked if participants could stay on longer and he didn't rush through the final points of the session. I have found that every interaction with Insources has been professional, informative and completely relevant to my work. Thank you
Judith Evans
Excellent. Will highly recommend.
