What Changed, What Matters, What You’ll Do Differently in 2026

Explore this practical, scenario-driven compliance refresher designed for VET professionals who want to stay current, confident & defensible in a rapidly changing regulatory & delivery environment.

This is not a policy walkthrough or a box-ticking update.

It is a focused review of key focus areas where trainers & assessors are most exposed in everyday practice.

Work through realistic scenarios drawn from contemporary VET delivery. Each topic is grounded in real units of competency to stress-test judgement and decision-making in ways that mirror real audits, complaints & reviews.

Every section finishes with a clear commitment to action, ensuring the refresher leads to changes in practice, not just completion.

Through realistic scenarios, conversation replays & practical reflection, the course explores AI use, cultural safety, wellbeing boundaries, assessment judgement, validation, records, complaints & industry currency. Rather than a compliance tick-box, this refresher supports confident, defensible decision-making & helps trainers explain & evidence their practice in a way that stands up to scrutiny.

Free! for VET PD Series subscribers - Register via your vetr portal dashboard.

4 hours in duration.

What we cover...

Address the key practice risk areas that emerged or intensified over the past year, including:

  Foundation skills beyond traditional LLN & digital screening

  Cultural safety & inclusive practice as lived, documented behaviour

  Wellbeing boundaries, recognising support needs without becoming the counsellor

  Training support in practice, what timely support actually looks like

  Innovative training techniques that remain compliant & defensible

  AI usage for trainers, productivity without outsourcing judgement

  Assessment principles & rules applied in real assessment decisions

  AI in assessment, managing authenticity conversations professionally

  Validation as a quality improvement activity, not paperwork repair

  Records that genuinely evidence what occurred

  Complaints & appeals, managing tone, fairness & evidence

  Maintaining vocational & training currency that actually counts

 A Statement of Completion is available on completion of course activities.

CORE AREAS

TRAINING

• The Vocational Education & Training Sector
  
  • Interpret VET policy context
  • Operate within VET delivery and compliance frameworks
  • Work effectively with vocational learners
  • Plan to improve own professional practice
• Facilitating Training
  
  • Deliver face-to-face vocational training
    

ENGAGING AND SUPPORTING VET STUDENTS

• Supporting Learning
  
  • Support individual and group learning
    

ASSESSMENT

• Conduct Assessment
  
  • Plan and prepare to conduct assessment
  • Prepare candidates
  • Collect evidence
  • Make assessment judgement
• Validation
  
  • Prepare for validation activities
  • Participate in assessment validation
  • Contribute to validation outcomes
    

EXTENSION AREAS

TRAINING

• Language, Literacy & Numeracy
  
  • Identify employability skill demands
  • Identify integrated foundation skill resources, strategies, and advice
  • Identify learner and candidate employability skill support needs
    

ENGAGING AND SUPPORTING VET STUDENTS

• Online Learning
  
  • Facilitate online learning
  • Support online learning