Stay Connected to Evolving Industry Skills and Knowledge
Last updated 27/10/26
Welcome to the Industry Currency Hub
Access toolkits that help RTOs and industry employers support teachers, trainers and assessors (TTAs) to stay up-to-date with industry skills and knowledge.
and I want a toolkit to maintain and integrate industry skills and knowledge into teaching.
and I want a toolkit to enable high quality teaching and confidently meet compliance requirements.
and I want a toolkit to share industry skills and knowledge with VET TTAs and support VET graduates’ job readiness.
I am an industry organisation or a union
and I want to support VET TTAs to update their industry skills and knowledge.
Tell me how I can help →Scroll down to learn more about the toolkits and industry currency
Introducing Priya, Matt
and Mei-Lin
Priya, Matt and Mei-Lin are fictional characters that help to share real-life examples of how the toolkits, tools and checklists are used.
Priya, Matt and Mei-Lin's fictional roles, responsibilities and included examples are not exhaustive. Roles, responsibilities and actual tasks may look different in practice.
Priya is a VET teacher, trainer and assessor (TTA). Priya balances a full-time teaching load and manages her industry currency
Matt is a Compliance and Training Lead. Matt supports TTAs to complete, reflect on and apply industry currency.
Mei-Lin liaises with RTOs to share industry knowledge, support training course content and student placements.
Industry Currency Matters
Industry currency supports high quality vocational education.
It’s good for students, TTAs, RTOs and employers.
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Industry currency helps TTAs build students’ knowledge and capabilities beyond step-by-step skills or processes.
Enabling industry currency helps RTOs strengthen student outcomes and enhance the quality of teaching.
Industry currency helps employers hire job-ready graduates and supports workers to succeed from day one with the right level of guidance.
Industry Currency Matters
Industry currency supports high quality vocational education.
It’s good for students, TTAs, RTOs and employers.
Tell me more →The Toolkits are Here to Help
Time and cost can make it difficult to stay connected with industry skills and knowledge. The toolkits help you find cost-efficient and feasible ways to maintain and support industry currency.
TTAs, RTOs and employers face different but connected challenges.
The toolkits will help you work through these together.
Teachers, Trainers and Assessors (TTAs)
- Limited time to build organisational-level industry relationships and manage industry currency
- Administration effort required to demonstrate compliance
- Difficulty accessing meaningful industry currency opportunities
- Reduce time required to build industry relationships, manage and demonstrate compliance requirements
- Reduce administration effort needed to identify industry skills, knowledge and industry currency opportunities
- Identify meaningful industry currency opportunities offered by employers
RTOs
- Limited time to build industry relationships and manage compliance requirements
- Administration effort required to support and demonstrate compliance
- Difficulty embedding organisational-level partnerships with industry
- Reduce time spent managing industry relationships and compliance requirements
- Reduce administration effort needed to support and demonstrate compliance
- Effectively embed and strengthen organisational-level partnerships with industry to enable industry currency
Industry Employers
- Limited time to build RTO relationships and support industry currency
- Uncertainty about how to best manage client expectations, privacy, confidentiality and workplace risk
- Service delivery protocols can make it difficult to identify industry currency opportunities
- Reduce time required to build RTO relationships and enable industry currency
- Access tools to help you effectively manage privacy, confidentiality and workplace risk and gain client consent
- Identify cost-efficient, feasible industry currency opportunities that align with service delivery protocols
A Collaborative Approach Reduces Barriers to Industry Currency
With RTOs and industry employers support, TTAs can update their industry skills and knowledge to set VET students up for success.
There are 3 toolkits, one each for TTAs, RTOs and employers. Each toolkit includes tools and checklists to help you work together across 3 stages to prepare for, engage with and apply industry currency.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs with industry currency deliver engaging training that prepares students to think critically, apply sound judgement and understand the impact of industry changes in their chosen vocation.
Tell me more →Students start to develop critical thinking skills and understand job tasks beyond following instructions.
Students start to build intuition and judgement to effectively apply practical skills in any environment.
Students understand how up-to-date knowledge of practices, standards and client expectations affects tasks, processes and service delivery.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs with industry currency deliver engaging training that prepares students to think critically, apply sound judgement and understand the impact of industry changes in their chosen vocation.
Tell me more →Frequently Asked Questions
I currently have a full-time teaching load, how will the toolkit help me maintain industry currency?
Without the support of your RTO and industry employers, it can be difficult to access opportunities to maintain industry currency. The RTO and employer toolkits support RTOs and employers to partner together to help you and other TTAs to stay up-to-date with industry skills and knowledge.
I currently hold part-time roles in industry and an RTO, how will the toolkit help me?
Do I need to teach a particular training course to benefit from the toolkit?
The tools include examples across different sectors. These examples help TTAs make the most of the tools, regardless of the courses they teach.
I want to feel confident I’ve met compliance requirements, can the toolkit help?
- Strong partnerships between your RTO and industry employers make it easier to access industry currency opportunities and gain insight into recent industry changes from an employer perspective.
- The tools for TTAs, RTOs and employers enable a collaborative approach to planning industry currency opportunities over a 12-month period.
- The RTO toolkit supports your RTO to provide you and your colleagues with consistent guidance on reflection, application and evidence expectations.
- The TTA and RTO toolkits include recommended industry currency opportunities, including when they are most effective, to help you choose opportunities that align with the industry skills and knowledge you want to update.
How often should I use the tools and checklists? Do I need to use all of them?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on existing processes. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet your needs.
How will the toolkit help my RTO work with employers to minimise health and safety risks?
Why does the toolkit suggest I should have reflective conversations with employers?
My RTO doesn't know about this toolkit, how do I get them on board?
How will industry employers partner with our RTO to enable industry currency?
These include:
- Build strong partnerships with RTOs
- Share high-level insight into key industry changes from an employer perspective
- Identify and coordinate feasible opportunities for TTAs to update industry skills and knowledge
- Enable their staff and clients to support industry currency opportunities
- Confirm participation in industry currency opportunities
- Engage in reflective discussion with TTAs, where relevant
The prepare stage includes tools for both RTOs and employers to build a shared understanding of partnership goals, roles and responsibilities, ways of working, and mutual benefit. This stage sets the foundation for the partnership and clarifies how each partner will support industry currency.
Why is collaboration important to help TTAs maintain industry currency?
Organisation-level partnerships between RTOs and industry employers ensure the right stakeholders are involved and can support collaboration. These partnerships also help RTOs and employers work together to resolve organisational challenges.
For example, an RTO and an employer may implement a brief 30-minute induction for TTAs to mitigate work health and safety risks.
How will the toolkit help our RTO meet compliance requirements?
- Strong partnerships with industry employers make it easier to access industry currency opportunities and gain insight into recent industry changes from an employer perspective.
- The industry currency schedule supports RTOs and employers to plan and coordinate industry currency opportunities for multiple TTAs over a 12‑month period.
- The measurement approach helps RTOs tailor and standardise how TTAs record, reflect on and apply industry currency throughout the year, based on organisational requirements.
- The RTO and TTA toolkits include guidance on when different industry currency opportunities are most effective to support decision-making.
We already have a partnership with an employer, do we need the toolkit?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.
For example, the tools designed to set partnership foundations may be useful to revisit how partners will work together to support industry currency and gain tangible benefit from the partnership.
Will the toolkit help us partner with more than one employer, if that would support our TTAs?
For example, RTOs that specialise in a particular industry or sector might use the toolkit to focus on building a strong partnership with a single employer. RTOs that deliver training across multiple industries and sectors might use the toolkit to partner with multiple employers to make sure their TTAs can access relevant currency opportunities.
How will the toolkit help us work with employers to minimise health and safety risks?
- Use the currency selection tool to identify the industry currency opportunities that best meet TTAs needs. Discuss possible opportunities with employer partners to finalise opportunities based on what is feasible for employers and relevant for TTAs.
- Use the employer information sheet to collate and share relevant information with employers before TTAs undertake industry currency opportunities.
- Use the measurement plan to help employers supervise or confirm TTAs participation and completion of industry currency opportunities and engage in reflective discussion with TTAs, where relevant.
How often should we use the tools and checklists? Do we need to use all of them?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.
How will the toolkit help us support industry currency across different campuses and training packages?
For example, RTOs with multiple campuses may need to collaborate with relevant stakeholders from each campus to make sure planned opportunities are fit for purpose.
How will RTOs partner with our organisation to enable industry currency?
These include:
- Build strong partnerships with employers, including tangible value employers will receive
- Identify and coordinate feasible opportunities for TTAs to update industry skills and knowledge
- Share TTAs relevant employee information to support work, health and safety
- Share a measurement approach to help employers confirm TTAs participation in industry currency opportunities and engage in reflective discussion with TTAs if relevant
The prepare stage includes tools for both employers and RTOs to build a shared understanding of partnership goals, roles and responsibilities, ways of working, and mutual benefit. This stage sets the foundation for the partnership and clarifies how each partner will support industry currency.
How will the toolkits help RTOs and TTAs enhance quality of teaching?
- Strong partnerships with industry employers make it easier to access industry currency opportunities and gain insight into key industry changes from an employer perspective.
- The currency activity schedule supports RTOs and employers to plan and coordinate industry currency opportunities for multiple TTAs over a 12‑month period.
- The reflection and measurement plan helps RTOs tailor and standardise how TTAs record, reflect on and apply industry currency throughout the year, based on organisational requirements.
- The RTO and TTA toolkits include guidance on when different industry currency opportunities are most effective to support decision-making.
Why is collaboration important to help TTAs maintain industry currency?
Organisation-level partnerships between employers and RTOs ensure the right stakeholders are involved and can support collaboration. These partnerships also help employers and RTOs work together to resolve organisational challenges.
For example, an employer and an RTO may implement a brief 30-minute induction for TTAs to mitigate work health and safety risks.
We already have a partnership with an employer, do we need the toolkit?
For example, your organisation may be comfortable inviting TTAs to join your staff for an upcoming training session held onsite or virtually.
Will the toolkit help us manage service delivery protocols, that limit industry currency opportunities?
There are lots of different industry currency opportunities that are meaningful for TTAs to participate in. This includes opportunities that TTAs can participate in virtually. The employer toolkit will help you identify cost-efficient and feasible industry currency opportunities TTAs can access based on your work environment.
We already partner with RTOs for student placements, do we need the toolkit?
Additional resources is always a good thing. Across the three stages of the toolkit (prepare, engage and apply) there are tools and checklists with recommended tasks, that will support your approach and may highlight alternative options or ways of doing things.
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.
For example, the tools designed to set partnership foundations may be useful to revisit how partners will work together to support industry currency and gain tangible benefit from the partnership.
We are located in a regional, rural or remote area, how can we support industry currency?
Will the toolkit help us partner with more than one RTO, if we want to?
How often should we use the tools and checklists? Do we need to use all of them?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.
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