Guides for providers

Communication and collaboration between us and providers is vital in ensuring a strong VET sector. A key channel of communication is the asqanet portal, where providers notify us of changes to their business and apply for changes to their scope of registration.

The guide answers some of your more frequently asked questions about the asqanet portal and provides the technical assistance you need when you need it.

ASQA, in collaboration with HumanAbility, Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and Department of Education, has developed guidance to support registered training organisations to undertake assessment of students completing ECEC qualifications in the workplace.

The guidance also assists ECEC students to understand their obligations when engaging in assessment activities while at an ECEC service.

Recognising the value quality consultants can offer, we've co-designed this guide with our Stakeholder Liaison Group (SLG).

The guide covers the value of external advice, responsibility for compliant practice and what to consider when engaging a consultant.

This guide is for course developers seeking to accredit a course or course owners seeking to renew the accreditation of an existing course.

The guide aims to help course developers and owners to:

• interpret, understand and apply the Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021, Standards for Training Packages and the Australian Qualifications Framework
• locate resources that may help them develop or a review a VET accredited course for renewal of accreditation purposes.

This is a guide to help course owners complete the National course document template.

The guide aims to help course owners:

• interpret and apply the Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021 and the Australian Qualifications Framework in relation to the completion of the National course document template
• better understand the requirements for accreditation by providing detailed explanations and example content. 

This guide outlines your responsibilities when changing the ownership of a training provider and explains how ASQA will respond to these changes. 

For the purposes of this guide, changes to company shareholding of 50 per cent or more are considered significant.

RTOs and CRICOS providers are responsible for ensuring that educational premises (i.e. delivery sites) comply with health and safety requirements.

The 2025 Standards require RTOs to comply with relevant Commonwealth, state and territory legislation.

The National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (NVR Act) contains a range of civil penalty provisions some of which may be dealt with by way of an infringement notice. 

The decision to issue an infringement notice is one of a range of enforcement actions ASQA can take in order to enforce compliance with the law.

This document contains sample documentation or templates for:

• testamurs (issued by a registered training organisation [RTO] to learners who have met the requirements of a vocational education and training [VET] qualification)
• records of results (issued by an RTO to accompany the testamur), and
• statements of attainment (issued by an RTO to certify the completion of one or more units or modules from a VET qualification, or the completion of an accredited short course).

The samples are designed to support RTOs to meet the requirements of the 2025 Standards and the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).