career pathway they have chosen. Registered Training Organisation status All VET is required to be certified by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). Schools have a variety of ways of accessing RTO services: becoming an RTO the school sector acting as the RTO partnering with an RTO (auspice) using an external RTO to deliver and assess all of the training onsite or offsite. Each of these options will suit schools in different situations. Whatever the arrangement adopted, schools and employers need to be confident that the RTO has suitably qualified trainers and assessors and access to the industry-standard equipment required. St Patrick’s Technical College has developed a legal Agreement’ with TAFE SA to jointly deliver ‘Cooperative VET courses. VET Courses are delivered by suitably qualified teachers from the college or TAFE either at the college or TAFE or at both. When the college was established the College Board took a decision that it should not set itself up as an RTO. Many of the local employers had long established relationships with RTOs such as the TAFEs or other private training providers. The Board did not want to set up in competition with these. In addition, the college wanted to ensure the students had established pathways into Apprenticeships and build on existing good relationships it had in place with employers and RTOs. The decision was made to deliver at Certificate II level and establish a relationship with TAFE SA as the RTO. This arrangement means that when a student moves into an Apprenticeship, the relationship the employer has with their existing RTO can be continued.
career pathway they have chosen. Registered Training Organisation status All VET is required to be certified by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). Schools have a variety of ways of accessing RTO services: becoming an RTO the school sector acting as the RTO partnering with an RTO (auspice) using an external RTO to deliver and assess all of the training onsite or offsite. Each of these options will suit schools in different situations. Whatever the arrangement adopted, schools and employers need to be confident that the RTO has suitably qualified trainers and assessors and access to the industry-standard equipment required. St Patrick’s Technical College has developed a legal ‘Cooperative Agreement’ with TAFE SA to jointly deliver VET courses. VET Courses are delivered by suitably qualified teachers from the college or TAFE either at the college or TAFE or at both. When the college was established the College Board took a decision that it should not set itself up as an RTO. Many of the local employers had long established relationships with RTOs such as the TAFEs or other private training providers. The Board did not want to set up in competition with these. In addition, the college wanted to ensure the students had established pathways into Apprenticeships and build on existing good relationships it had in place with employers and RTOs. The decision was made to deliver at Certificate II level and establish a relationship with TAFE SA as the RTO. This arrangement means that when a student moves into an Apprenticeship, the relationship the employer has with their existing RTO can be continued.
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