To guarantee yourself a seat at our RTO Manager’s Toolkit, Training & Assessment Toolkit and our new Professional Presenter’s Toolkit Seminars, you can use our quick and easy online enrolment form, using the Professional Development Seminar tab on our website or by emailing admin@tbsconsulting.com.au.

These seminars successfully target the questions most often asked by RTO managers, training coordinators and compliance officers. Few people appreciate a ‘lecture’; our informal presentation style actively encourages your questions, comments and feedback. Our goal is to coach and empower participants to achieve a business culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Upcoming Seminars:

Brisbane:

RTO Manager’s Toolkit – 23rd February

Training and Assessment Toolkit – 23rd February

Professional Presenter’s Toolkit – 24th February

Melbourne:

RTO Manager’s Toolkit – 9th March

Training and Assessment Toolkit – 10th March

Professional Presenter’s Toolkit – 11th March

Perth:

RTO Manager’s Toolkit – 16th March

Training and Assessment Toolkit – 17th March

Professional Presenter’s Toolkit – 18th March

Sydney:

RTO Manager’s Toolkit – 2nd March

Training and Assessment Toolkit – 3rd March

Professional Presenter’s Toolkit – 4th March

Richard recently returned from Nepal after a long trek up Mount Everest to Base Camp 1. Here is the evidence, though the pictures surely don’t do this experience proper justice.

Richard traveled to Base Camp 1 with Executive Excellence,  for more information about Everest or their other adventures visit executiveexcellence.com.au!

TBS Consulting is now registered online with the successful website startnextweek.com.au. With over 20 000 customers registered and 150 000 courses displayed, Start Next Week is a substancial medium for browsing and enroling in courses, from Accounting and Finance to Writing and Reading.

For information on our Professional Development Seminar’s you can browse the “Business Development” category at startnextweek.com.au and using the website book yourself one of the remaining places in the seminar and pay online.

To get your business registered on startnextweek.com.au, just visit the website and follow the prompts. It is a valuable tool to have as a training provider,  as the website has increased traffic for some corporate organistations by 53%, and also has significant partnerships with high traffic sites.

Take our newest online feature for a test drive, our paperless Professional Development Seminar enrolment form. Now quicker and easier, you can guarantee yourself a seat at our RTO Manager’s Toolkit and Training and Assessment Toolkit.

These seminars successfully target the questions most often asked by RTO managers, training coordinators and compliance officers. Few people appreciate a ‘lecture’; our informal presentation style actively encourages your questions, comments and feedback. Our goal is to coach and empower participants to achieve a business culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Upcoming Seminars are in Melbourne on 9th and 10th of November, in Brisbane on 23rd and 24th of February, in Sydney from the 2nd to the 4th of March, in Melbourne on the 11th of March and in Perth from the 16th to the 18th of March. For any more details about our Professional Development Seminars or enrolment please email us at admin@tbsconsulting.com.au.

From 1 January 2010 the Award system will change throughout Australia. All security guards, crowd controllers and control room operators will be covered by the Security Services Award 2010.

This will mean significant changes in some states for wages and conditions. In order to assist with the transition from current practice to the new award ASIAL has been discussing with key industry unions and stakeholders to mitigate the effects of change.

ASIAL will be making a submission for consideration by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on three most discussed options.  Members are requested to complete the survey below by placing a tick against the one option you most prefer and return to ASIAL no later than Tuesday, 19 May 2009

From Australian Security Industry Association Limited 2009

VET Numbers Grew in 2008

Student numbers continued to grow in Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) system during 2008, with 1.7 million enrolments, up 1.9 per cent from 2007.

The latest figures released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) show the number of Queensland students also continues to grow, with 290,000 enrolments in 2008, a 1.5 percent increase.

Significantly more Queensland VET students are undertaking longer, nationally accredited courses, including certificate III and certificate IV courses

The NCVER’s Australian vocational education and training statistics: Students and courses, 2008 provides a snapshot of the training system.

To find out more, visit NCVER

From Queensland Government 2009

International WorldSkills Competition

The Skillaroos – a selection of Australia’s brightest and best young tradespeople – will take on the world at the 2009 International WorldSkills Competition in Canada in September.

From September 1-6, Calgary will host more than 850 competitors from 48 countries at the ‘Trade Olympics’.

The 26-strong Australian team is rounding off a comprehensive preparation, having enjoyed a boot camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in June, where they were presented with official Skillaroos uniforms by Federal Employment Participation Minister Mark Arbib, representing the Prime Minister.

Click here to learn more.

From Queensland Government 2009

Vocational Education & Training Industry Group

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – When is enough, ENOUGH?

GUEST SPEAKER : RICHARD TURNER

Richard Turner has a 26-year career in VET, business and security management with extensive experience in AQTF compliance, RTO registration audit support, course facilitation and business solutions. He is now a specialist RTO consultant, training designer and facilitator with a proven track record in all aspects of VET. Richard’s business philosophy is to coach and empower clients to achieve a personal and business culture of continuous improvement and professional development. Richard owned and operated his own RTO for more than a decade and would like to take this opportunity to pass his experience on to other VET practitioners.

When:
Wednesday 26 August 2009
6.45am for 7.00am start & 9.00am finish.

Where:

Fitzy’s Loganholme Room –
Sheldon Room
Bryants Rd & Pacific Hwy
LOGANHOLME QLD 4127

Cost:
$35.00(GST Free) VETIG member
$40.00 (GST Free) Non member
*Price includes breakfast

Registration administered by Voc Ed Learning Group
Phone: (07) 38660888 or Email: info@vetig.com.au

Our August blog includes updates on:

• NARA
• AREDv2.1

What is NARA?

NARA, the National Audit and Registration Agency, provides audit and registration services for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) that operate in more than one Australian State or Territory.

The National Audit and Registration Agency (NARA) has held meetings with key stakeholders during May and June, with the topic of national consistency in vocational education and training the primary focus of the discussions.

To find out more about NARA and the new move towards consistency click here.

AREDv2.1 – Applications for Rapid E-learning Development

About AREDv2.1

ARED is designed to allow practitioners, with little more than basic computer skills, to easily build their own e-learning resources using six dynamic templates. The templates are based on media-rich interactions that are commonly used in e-learning materials and remove the need for practitioners to learn the multimedia skills commonly required to build such resources.

AREDv2.1 enables practitioners to take their own content, integrate it into a template and publish a fully-functional and engaging e-learning resource they can deliver via CD-ROM, website or learning management system.

Who is AREDv2.1 for?

This resource will be of interest to:

• e-learning resource and content developers
• practitioners who would like to easily develop and create educationally sound e-learning resources
• e-learning resource development managers

From Australian Flexible Learning Network, 2009
Please keep checking back for more TBS Consulting updates!

1. VOCED UPDATE

About VOCED

The VOCED database covers the topics of vocational education and training research, policy, practice, training systems and published statistics. It has extensive coverage of Australian material and includes a wide range of key international information.

International VET Policy and Research

VOCED database has an ongoing initiative to identify and list a range of vocational education and training (VET) policy and research from various regions of the world. The documents are listed under regional headings and then chronologically from the most recent to the earliest.

To find out more, click here.

From VOCED, 2009.

2. RESOURCE UPDATE

About the resource update

Capability Plus rolls out cutting edge products and intelligent consulting services which supports RTOs and enterprise to solve their training and assessment implementation challenges and deliver a higher quality training experience for Australians.

CHC08 Assessment Resources

Assessment resources are now available for 12 qualifications of the CHC08 Training package. The resources have been developed by learning experts with extensive industry experience and include:

Capability Plus, 2009.