2021: ASQA's New Regulatory Changes - E-Skills Australia | Leading RTO, CRICOS & HE Consultants

Changes include (Ref: ASQA, Mar 2021):

Revisions to ASQA’s assessment methodology – to provide for a better understanding of sector performance and a greater focus on self-assurance and continuous improvement in training outcomes.
Establishing new teams [in ASQA] to more clearly distinguish the work involved in monitoring provider performance (Quality Assessors) from the work to determine our regulatory response when non-compliance is identified (Compliance Officers).
Providing for more proportionate responses in managing non-compliance through the introduction of an agreement to rectify with opportunities for providers to address non-compliance in a more systemic and sustainable way.
Introduction of the Internal Review team to provide earlier opportunities to resolve disputed decisions.
Implementing legislative changes that see us publishing more information, more efficiently, about our decisions (from March 2021).

ASQA’s next steps include:

revising the Annual Declaration on Compliance to better support provider self-assurance and continuous improvement
delivering our next webinar featuring a panel session with an industry expert, Claire Field. This forms part of our webinar series on self-assurance, and further information will be provided soon and
continuing to work with providers, peak representative bodies, and the Stakeholder Liaison Group (SLG), to develop examples and case studies that help build a shared understanding of self-assurance.

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