Industry Organisations and Unions
Last updated 27/10/26
Industry Organisations and Unions Hold Important Stewardship and Advocacy Roles
Industry organisations, including Industry Advisory Groups (IAGs), Industry Training Advisory Bodies (ITABS), peak bodies and unions can promote industry changes and workforce capability gaps.
As organisations with significant scale and reach you have a unique and valuable opportunity to draw attention to upcoming and recent industry changes including how the changes impact training courses and industry currency. Your organisation can encourage teachers, trainers and assessors (TTAs) to use resources, such as these toolkits to stay connected with evolving industry skills and knowledge.
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 strenghten student outcomes and enhance 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 →Industry Currency Supports High Quality Vocational Education
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) sets standards that emphasise high quality teaching and strong student outcomes in VET. RTOs and TTAs must meet these standards. This includes a standard relating to industry currency.
Industry currency refers to the industry skills and knowledge that enable workers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
a current working knowledge of practices, sector reforms, legal and regulatory standards
understanding of industry changes impact operating environments and service delivery
understanding of changing client expectations and needs
Standard 3.3: Training and assessment is delivered by persons with industry current skills and knowledge relevant to the training product.
Learn more about ASQA and RTO standards Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)
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.
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