These days subscription payments are part of everyday life—bills, gym memberships, music, phone plans, Netflix, and the list goes on. Bite-sized fees paid regularly, that make the total cost more…
Facing up to the gap between leadership reality vs perception
By Nick McEwan-Hall It’s with great interest that I’ve been reading the largest survey of leadership in Australia, the Study of Australian Leadership (SAL), and a pile of online articles…
The Race to the Bottom
By Marie Vassallo No matter where you look in the Australian mainstream media today, the news about vocational education is all doom and gloom. Headlines about ‘dodgy providers’ abound, with…
Minimising Risk – Focusing on Quality Assessment Tools
When it comes to non-compliances, based on the Australian Skills Quality Authority’s (ASQA) figures, the majority of non-compliance issues relate to the practice of assessing and assessment tools. Over 70%…
Tips for reviewing your training products
By John Dwyer, Velg Training consultant According to the Users’ Guide to the Standards for RTOs 2015, Appendix 1 Glossary, training products are materials associated with any: “AQF qualification, skill…
We can’t hear for all the “SHOUTING!!!”
As I began writing this first blog post for 2016, I wondered how the first six weeks of the year had flown by so quickly. My Mum always used to…
The Focus of Education
Over the Christmas break many friends and relatives wanted to talk to me about the headlines that have been appearing in the newspapers and social media over the last few…
Running an RTO—one big puzzle
Running any business is like one big puzzle—there are multiple moving pieces, each fitting together to create a cohesive whole. These pieces can include a marketing and sales piece, a…
Do you value your best asset?
I suppose we could debate what any business’s best asset is, but for my money, it’s always people. Without good people, no matter how fantastic your product is, you won’t…
Guilty by association?
It’s no secret in the VET sector, that a couple of big RTOs (not just one, even though that’s all we see talked about) have had some challenges, and made…
