The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has a number of standards related to the continuing registration of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). The 2025 Standards for RTOs Credential Policy covers the following:
• Credentials for the delivery of training and assessment
• Credential requirements for the delivery of training and assessment for training products from the Training and Education (TAE) Training Package
• Credentials for validation of assessment.
Reference: Practice Guide – Credential Policy (https://www.asqa.gov.au/how-we-regulate/revised-standards-rtos/practice-...)
To ensure that the procedures related to the delivery of the College's scope of registration (training packages, accredited courses and units of competency) incorporate the principles contained in the 2025 Standards for RTOs Credentials Policy.
This policy relates to all VET units of competency, training package qualifications, and accredited courses delivered by the College or any of its teaching partners.
a) Guiding principles
Trainers and assessors are required to hold the relevant qualification for the delivery and assessment of VET units (according to the prevalent schedule of qualifications specified in the 2025 Standards for RTOs Credential Policy (or its successor)). However, it is possible for trainers and assessors who do not hold the relevant qualification, but have appropriate industry experience, to work under the direct supervision of a staff member who has the relevant qualification.
The College is to minimise the use of supervised trainers and assessors by ensuring that there is an adequate pool of suitably trained staff. Financial assistance to enable staff to upgrade/maintain their qualifications will be considered on a case by case basis.
Where a trainer/assessor does not have the relevant qualification, there must be clear documentation of the supervisory relationship. This documentation is to be recorded in the Register of Supervised Trainers and Assessors located in the VET folder in Sharepoint.
b) Monitoring of a trainer/assessor working under supervision
A person who is actively working towards a training and assessment credential can deliver training and contribute to assessment (including collecting assessment evidence), provided they work under the direction of a trainer or assessor. Working towards these qualifications does not qualify the person to make assessment judgements.
When a supervisory relationship is in place (either an industry expert or a person who is actively working towards a training and assessment credential), the Course Co-ordinator (the supervisor) must have the relevant VET qualification for training and assessment (refer to the Credential Policy (or its successor).
Where a trainer does not have the relevant qualification, the supervisor shall establish a plan for monitoring, and then shall monitor the training to ensure that it meets the necessary standards. The supervisor shall record the monitoring plan and the results of this monitoring in the Register of Supervised Trainers and Assessors located in the VET folder in Sharepoint.
Where an assessor does not have the relevant qualification, the supervisor shall establish a plan for, and then shall monitor the assessment to ensure that it meets the necessary standards. The supervisor shall record the monitoring plan and the results of this monitoring in the Register of Supervised Trainers and Assessors located in the VET folder in Sharepoint.
The Register of Supervised Trainers and Assessors should be reviewed on a regular basis (at least once per semester) to ensure that there is consistency between the monitoring plan and the recording of this monitoring.
c) Credentials for validation of assessment
To conduct validation of a training product (which is not part of the TAE Training Package), the person(s) conducting the validation must collectively meet the requirements for validation according to the Credential Policy (or its successor). At least one of the people undertaking validation must have one of the validator credentials.