Media releases

ASQA will audit VET Student Loans providers under an enhancement of its partnership with the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.

On Monday 18 December 2017, ASQA agreed to a request from TAFE SA for an extension of time to lodge a reconsideration application to 2 March 2018.

ASQA has suspended 10 qualifications from the scope of registration of TAFE SA (RTO number 41026).

ASQA has announced its intention to cancel 434 sham qualifications and statements of attainment issued to 277 individuals by former training provider Premier Training Institute Pty Ltd.

ASQA has imposed a raft of data retention and reporting conditions on the registration of Gurkhas Institute of Technology Pty Ltd (RTO number 22088).

A man who issued seven vocational education and training statements of attainment despite not being authorised to do so has been convicted and fined $3,000 in the ACT Magistrates Court.

ASQA has welcomed a decision by the Federal Court to impose substantial financial penalties on Get Qualified Australia Pty Ltd (GQA) and its sole director, Mr Adam Wadi, for multiple breaches of the Australian consumer law.

Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) regulator will target international education as part of its regulatory strategy for the next 12 months.

ASQA will this week commence consultation with the VET sector on a proposed schedule of revised fees and charges to come into effect from 1 January 2018

ASQA has published the findings of its national strategic review of issues relating to unduly short training.