2013
Information
Sheet
No.3
Vocational Education and
Training in Victoria, 2013
There were 1,085 Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) in Victoria at 30 June 2013.
Forty-three per cent were registered with the VRQA and 57 per cent with the national VET
regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA).
Table 1
Victorian Registered Training Organisations, 30 June 2013
ORGANISATION TYPE
Education/Training Business or Centre
Community-based Adult Education Provider *
Industry Association
Professional Association
Enterprise - Non-government
Enterprise - Government
TAFE - Technical And Further Education Institute
University - Government
School - Government
School - Independent
School - Catholic
Other - Not Elsewhere Classified
Grand Total
VRQA
190
132
29
3
15
11
43
23
10
7
463
ASQA
464
26
61
7
37
2
15
3
1
6
622
TOTAL
654
158
90
10
52
13
15
3
43
24
10
13
1,085
* Includes 110 ACFE providers
Chart 1
Victorian RTOs by type
RTOs can broadly be classified into a number of groups. Sixty per cent are education/training
centres which are commercial RTOs; 15 per cent are community-based adult education providers.
There are also a number of industry, professional and enterprise organisations.
There are 77 schools
delivering accredited
VET courses. The
TAFE Institutes and
Universities with
TAFE divisions
constitute just 2 per
cent of providers,
but have a much
higher proportion of
enrolments.
1%
2%
Education/Training Business or Centre
7%
Adult Education Provider
6%
Industry/Professional Association
9%
Enterprise Organisation
60%
TAFE Institute
15%
School
Other
Table 2 shows that the number of RTOs has decreased by nearly 20 per cent in the last five years.
This is due to voluntary cancellations, fewer providers entering the market, liquidations and
because of sanctions by regulatory authorities.
In 2012-13, the VRQA registered 11 new providers but there were 30 cancellations, contributing to
the net overall decline in providers.
Table 2
Victorian RTO’s, at 30 June – last five years
Total
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Change ‘09-13
1,338
1,232
1,157
1,100
1,085*
-253 (-19%)
-
-106
-75
-57
-15
Year-on-year change
* 463 were registered with the VRQA and 622 with ASQA
There are over 4,800 RTOs in Australia (Table 3). Victoria has the third largest number after
Queensland and New South Wales. Relative to the resident population, Victoria has a lower
proportion of RTOs than Queensland, Western Australia and the ACT.
Table 3
RTOs
RTOs by state, 30 June 2013
QLD
NSW
VIC
WA
SA
ACT
TAS
NT
Total
1,498
1,129
1,085
540
279
127
90
58
4,806
Chart 2
Numbers of RTOs by state
1,600
1,400
1,200
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
QLD
NSW
VIC
WA
SA
ACT
TAS
NT