Corporate Plan
ASQA’s Corporate Plan 2022-23 was published on 31 August 2022.
An updated version of ASQA’s Corporate Plan for 2022–23 has now been published, following recent ministerial approval. The variation reflects two key changes to the Corporate Plan: removal of reference to the Training Package Assurance function, and an update to ASQA’s Strategic Risks.
The Corporate Plan sets out our program of work for the forward years, which is founded on our strategic objectives and will support us in achieving our purpose of ensuring quality vocational education and training (VET).
The removal of the reference to the Training Package Assurance function is consistent with the Australian Government’s decision (in consultation with states and territories) to consider alternate arrangements. Instead, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will establish the independent Training Package Assurance function for a limited time, to ensure training products meet national standards.
The Corporate Plan builds on and matures significant enhancements to our regulatory practice that were introduced in 2021-22, as well as further enhancing our performance framework to better focus on outcomes and reflect the continued maturity journey for ASQA and the sector over the coming years.
The Corporate Plan includes information about:
- key activities and deliverables for 2022-23 to achieve our strategic objectives
- performance measurement standards for key activities
- our purpose and role.
Strategic objectives to achieve our purpose
ASQA delivers improved provider self-assurance capability and continuous quality improvement:
- Our regulatory tools and practices support providers to self-assure quality VET outcomes and continuously improve
- Our published insights about risks and the outcomes of our risk treatments support providers to self-assure their own operations.
ASQA regulation is best practice, integrated, risk-based and proportionate:
- Our regulation focuses on the greatest risk of harm to the integrity of qualifications and achievement of quality outcomes
- Our education and communication with the sector supports regulatory outcomes
- We manage risks proportionately and maintain essential safeguards utilising the full suite of our regulatory tools
- We implement better practice improvements in how we exercise our regulatory functions.
ASQA is transparent in the performance of its regulatory functions and its responsibilities, including compliance with the Standards for VET Regulators 2015, and publishes information about the performance of the sector to support transparency and accountability:
- Stakeholders can access information about our regulatory approach
- Stakeholders can access information about our regulatory activity and performance
- The Australian community can access information about our regulatory decisions
- The Australian community can access information about sector wide performance
- We report on implementation of ASQA’s regulatory reform.
ASQA’s engagement and partnerships provide clarity of the role of the national regulator and improves regulatory impact:
- Our partnerships and engagement inform and enhance our regulatory approach
- We are proactive in our engagement to ensure that the regulatory system for which we have operational responsibility remains fit-for-purpose over the long term.
ASQA is efficient, effective and continuously improves:
- We use our cost recovery model as a key tool to understand and improve the efficiency of our operations and inform the alignment of our resources to regulatory priorities
- We share information about our assurance and quality control activities
- We share information about evaluation of our regulatory operations
- We progressively implement digital enhancements that improve the efficiency of our operations.