Owning Body:
Approved on:
Monday, 27 November, 2017
Approved by:
Contact Person:
VET Co-ordinator
Category:
Purpose:
To establish responsibilities for ensuring the systematic validation of all VET training courses (training packages and accredited courses).
Scope:
These procedures apply to the Registrar, the Vice Principal, Academic and the VET Co-ordinator.
Statement:
Responsibilities of the Registrar
- Develop a schedule for the validation of all VET training courses that are on the College’s scope of registration. This schedule will ensure the following:
- Every training course is to be validated at least once every five years
- The five year cycles will begin in 2015, 2020 and 2025.
- At least 50% of training courses are to be validated within the first three years of a five year cycle
- Training courses identified as likely to be audited by the VET Regulator will be validated earlier and more frequently that other training packages
- Ensure that all validation documentation is archived in a secure manner.
Responsibilities of the Vice Principal Academic
- Make the final determination as to which training products (units of competency within the training course) will be validated.
- Decide who will lead and participate in the validation activities.
- Ensure that the validation panel is adequately represented by the following:
- members with vocational competencies and current industry skills relevant to the assessment being validated
- members with current knowledge and skills in vocational teaching and learning
- independent industry experts whenever possible
- Decide how outcomes of the validation activities will be documented.
- Present the results of the validation activities to the Academic Standards and Risk Committee for discussion.
- Take any recommendations from the Academic Standards and Risk Committee to the VET Co-ordinator.
Responsibilities of the VET Co-ordinator
- Extract the necessary samples of students’ work for the selected units of competency, according to ASQA’s sampling guidelines.
- Present the feedback from trainers and assessors, students and employers surveys where relevant.
- Ensure that the validation panel is provided with the training and assessment strategy for the training course and any relevant information about the delivery of the training course.
- Review any recommendations from the Academic Standards and Risk Committee with a view to immediate implementation.
- Make recommendations to the Vice Principal Academic of what units of competency within a particular training package are suitable candidates for validation.
- Make recommendations to the Vice Principal Academic of suitable candidates to conduct or participate in the validation activities.
- Summarise the results of the validation activities and distribute the results to: the VET Course Co-ordinator, the Academic Standards and Risk Committee, and the Vice Principal Academic.
- Oversee the implementation of the recommendations into all the units of competency within the training package.
- Oversee the implementation of any process improvements regarding assessment judgements.