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The 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) came into effect on 1 July 2025.

The 2025 Standards for RTOs are enabled by the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 and represent all Governments’ shared ambition to lift quality across the VET sector, through enabling a more flexible, robust and quality-driven approach to regulation. These Standards provide a clearer and more direct link between the requirements RTOs are expected to meet and the outcomes they are expected to deliver.

There are three components of the 2025 Standards for RTOs:

Outcome Standards

For delivering high-quality training

Compliance Standards

For protecting the integrity of the VET sector

Credential Policy

Outlines the credentials required for delivering training and assessments and undertaking validation of assessment.

Help for providers

A range of resources are available to help providers meet the requirements of the 2025 Standards for RTOs.

These resources support providers to:

understand the intent behind the Standards so that they are consistently applied
understand what good practice looks like, and known risks to quality outcomes that should be avoided or mitigated
reflect on their own operations to ensure a focus on quality outcomes, continuous improvement and ongoing compliance with the Standards.

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has developed a Guide to the Outcome Standards.

We worked with industry to create practice guides to the Standards. These include compliance examples, risks to avoid and self-assurance questions.