Establishment of the National Skills Standards Council - DEEWR

The National Skills Standards Council is a committee of the Standing Council for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment (SCOTESE), which is one of a number of Standing Councils that report to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). SCOTESE is the successor of the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE).

The key fuctions of the Council are:

•develop and maintain national standards for regulation of vocational education and training for approval by SCOTESE and provide advice to SCOTESE on development and implementation of the standards;
•provide information, through SCOTESE, to the regulators of vocational education and training on the implementation and interpretation of the national standards and on issues of quality standards generally in the vocational education and training sector;
•provide information to the vocational education and training sector on the national standards and any changes to the standards;
•provide advice to SCOTESE on the operation of the regulators of vocational education and training;
•endorse national training packages

For further information you can visit their website:

http://www.nssc.tvetaustralia.com.au/home

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