Tools: Ensuring the capacity of TVET providers to provide the off-the-job component of apprenticeships
Standards for TVET providers, Australia |
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In Australia, off-the-job training can only be provided to apprentices by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), which must meet the following eight standards, set out in legislation:
The purpose of these standards is to confer the requisite competencies for employment or further study and ensure that RTOs operate ethically with due consideration for both learners’ and enterprises’ needs. |
Source: www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2014L01377. |
Handbook for quality management in TVET providers, Cedefop |
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The Handbook for VET providers, prepared by Cedefop, offers guidance to providers of vocational training, including those who provide the off-the-job component of training to apprentices. It draws on a number of case studies undertaken in Europe and offers multiple tools to help TVET providers reflect on their own performance, identify strengths and weaknesses and take action to improve quality. Some challenges which may arise in collaborating with the world of work to deliver apprenticeships (and other forms of work-based learning) are also identified and addressed. |
Source: Cedefop (2015) Handbook for VET providers. Supporting internal quality management and quality culture, www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/3068_en.pdf. |
Quality assurance of TVET providers by sector skills council, South Africa |
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All training providers in South Africa are expected to meet the requirements for accreditation as well as those of the appropriate quality management function. These requirements provide an assurance of the provider’s capacity to plan, deliver and manage the standards and qualifications for the programmes concerned. This tool, from BANKSETA, provides an example of how quality management in South Africa is organized. Training providers must submit a quality management plan to BANKSETA for all programmes before any learner agreements can be registered. |
Source: www.bankseta.org.za/quality-assurance/ https://www.skillsforemployment.org/KSP/en/Details/?dn=EDMSP1_254637. |
Training manual on the management of education and vocational training institutions, VET Toolbox/LUXDEV |
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The manual is intended primarily for managers of public and private vocational training institutions but is also useful to representatives of the government and ministries responsible for the professional training of individuals, as well as representatives of workers’ organizations. The contents are organized in such a way that managers can:
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Source: https://www.vettoolbox.eu/en/resources/management-education-and-vocational-training-institutions. |