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Celebrate the 2025 RTO Standards turning ONE this month!

The 2025 RTO Standards turn one this month.
Over the past 12 months, the VETQI community has asked hundreds of questions about implementing the revised Standards. Some questions have come up again and again. So, to celebrate the first anniversary of the 2025 Standards, we’re doing something different.
Instead of another presentation, we’ve invited five respected VET leaders to answer the Top 15 questions submitted by the VETQI community.
Each presenter will answer three questions, sharing practical advice, implementation strategies and lessons learnt from supporting providers across Australia.
Some of the questions we'll explore include:
✅ What does effective self-assurance really look like?
✅ What evidence is enough to demonstrate compliance?
✅ What are providers still getting wrong after 12 months?
✅ How much documentation is actually required? ✅ What have we learnt from ASQA's first year regulating under the revised Standards?
✅ What should every RTO be reviewing during the next 12 months? …and many more.

Featuring:
• Gabrielle Deschamps – Roubaix Consulting / ERTOA
• Sukh Sandhu – Compliance and Quality Assurance / Career Calling International
• Julie Healy – Quality Skills and Training / Skilled Nation
• Marnie Rangan – Builders Academy Australia
• Kylie Houghton – William Angliss Institute🎤

Hosted by Andrew Shea – VETQI Host & CEO, Skilled Nation
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Meet our host's

Andrew Shea

Strategic CEO | Skills & Workforce Reform Leader | Public Speaker | Governance & Quality Authority. Andrew is senior executive and nationally recognised leader in vocational education and skills reform, with over 20 years’ experience leading high-performing organisations in complex, regulated environments. His work sits at the intersection of strategy, governance and capability building. He has led large award-winning education businesses, built purpose-driven executive teams and driven transformational growth across post-secondary education and critical industry sectors. 
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Meet our Presenters

Gabrielle Deschamps  
Roubaix Consulting / ERTOA

A strong leader in VET based business with key operational & strategic experience. Combines business acumen with legal background. Seventeen years of experience in legal industry incorporating management and responsibility for commercial transactions. A competent and inspiring people manager, adept at negotiating agreement between parties. Proven ability to streamline and increase efficiency within an organisation.Specialties: Enterprise RTO's, AQTF, Competency Based Training, Quarrying, Industry Liaison

Sukh Sandhu
Compliance and Quality Assurance / Career Calling International

Sukh is recognised as a Top 100 Global Educator, Top 1% Influencer, multiple-time Times Square featured professional, and 10x master’s and LLM holder. He brings 30+ years of leadership across VET, RTOs, TAFEs, higher education, compliance, governance, risk, ISO, AI, quality assurance, and institutional improvement.
Sukh has held CEO, Director, National Compliance & Quality Assurance Manager, Principal Consultant, and senior executive roles across RTOs, TAFEs, universities, and education-sector organisations. His work is focused on building compliant, audit-ready, risk-aware, and quality-driven education systems.

Julie Healy
Quality Skills and Training / Skilled Nation

An experienced, highly motivated and accomplished educational leader offering over 25 years of experience in Vocational Education and Training in a diverse range of educational roles; providing strategic advice and leadership to internal and external clients around quality learning, teaching and assessment, contemporary pedagogical practices, student engagement and retention, educator capability and workforce development. Successfully led numerous large scale educational projects, demonstrating well refined project management skills and the ability to positively influence people to achieve successful outcomes. Key skills and attributes: Proven educational leadership, strategic planning, project management, curriculum development, team management, workforce capability, staff development, regulatory compliance and student engagement pedagogy. Innovative and solutions focusedOrganised and analytical, with excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills

Kylie Houghton
William Angliss Institute

Kylie Houghton is an accomplished vocational education professional with over 15 years of experience in the VET sector. She is currently the Education Quality and Curriculum Advisor at William Angliss Institute, where she plays a key role in driving educational excellence through curriculum design, assessment validation, quality assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives.Throughout her career, Kylie has developed extensive expertise in curriculum development, training and assessment practices, compliance, and quality management. She works closely with educators, industry stakeholders, and leadership teams to ensure training products and assessment strategies meet regulatory requirements while delivering positive learner outcomes.Passionate about maintaining high standards in vocational education, Kylie is committed to supporting innovation in teaching and learning, strengthening educational quality, and fostering meaningful industry engagement. Her collaborative approach and deep understanding of the VET regulatory environment have enabled her to contribute to the successful delivery of quality training programs that meet both industry needs and learner expectations.

Marnie Rangan
Builders Academy Australia

Marnie is an experienced education leader with more than 15 years' experience in RTO management and leadership across ELICOS, VET, Higher Education, and nationally funded training programs. She holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing), a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and a TESOL qualification.Throughout her career, Marnie has led large-scale education operations, overseeing compliance, governance, academic quality, student services, and organisational performance. She is passionate about building high-performing teams, delivering exceptional student experiences, maintaining academic integrity, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Marnie has extensive expertise in managing academic pathway programs, student services, curriculum development, training and assessment strategies, compliance, and funding across multiple campuses and education providers. Her experience spans staff recruitment and development, academic governance, timetabling, resource management, teacher mentoring, and regulatory compliance with ASQA, TEQSA, CRICOS, NEAS, Skills First, Victorian Training Guarantee (VTG), Higher Education Support legislation, and the National Code.Over her career, Marnie has successfully led more than 500 educators and supported the education of over 25,000 students across the ELICOS, VET, and Higher Education sectors.