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TAE Upgrade Deadline Extended to 1 July 2019

Updated credential requirements for trainers and assessors set out in theStandards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 were due to take effect on 1 April 2019, bringing the requirements in line with 2016 changes to the Training and Education Training Package. 

Recent feedback from the vocational education and training (VET) sector raised concerns that trainers and assessors may not have met the new requirements by 1 April 2019. 

In response to this feedback, Skills Ministers agreed to delay the introduction of these requirements to 1 July 2019, so that trainers and assessors can continue to train while undertaking gap training for a further three months. The Standards for RTOs have been amended accordingly. Please note that no further extensions to the new credential requirements will be made.

Those individuals who hold a diploma or higher level qualification in adult education may not need to undertake any further gap training to meet the requirements. RTOs and their trainers and assessors are responsible to confirm contemporary proficiency and relevant industry skills and experience.

Information on the current trainer and assessor credential requirements is available from the VET regulators at: 

• Australian Skills Quality Authority 
• Western Australia Training Accreditation Council 
• Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority 

Further information about new trainer and assessor credential requirements that apply from 1 July 2019, is available at: www.education.gov.au/frequently-asked-questions-new-trainer-and-assessor-credentials-requirements.

Answers to FAQs are here:  https://www.education.gov.au/frequently-asked-questions-new-trainer-and-assessor-credentials-requirements#whyhavetherequirementschanged  

Additional queries may be directed to the department by emailing: VETassessment@education.gov.au.

Date posted Mar 28, 2019