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Character Range: 16701–19948

employers, networks and industry bodies.
Industry expert means an individual who has relevant specialised industry or subject matter expertise who is engaged by the RTO on the basis of that expertise. Industry experts must have relevant vocational competencies and have current industry skills directly relevant to the training and assessment being provided.
Industry regulator means a body or organisation responsible for the regulation and/or licensing arrangements within a specific industry or occupation.
Learner means a person being trained and/or assessed by the RTO for the purpose of issuing AQF certification documentation.
Licensed or regulated outcome means compliance with an eligibility requirement for an occupational licence or a legislative requirement to hold a particular training product in order to carry out an activity.
Mode of delivery means the method adopted to deliver training and assessment, including online, distance, or blended methods.
Module means a group of learning outcomes in a VET accredited course where it can be established that it is not possible to develop an appropriate unit of competency.
National Register means the register maintained by the Commonwealth Department responsible for VET and referred to in section 216 of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.
Nationally Recognised Training (NRT) Logo means the logo used nationally to signify training packages and VET accredited courses.
Operations of an RTO include training, assessment and administration and support services related to its registration, including those delivered across jurisdictions and offshore.
Person includes a body politic or corporate as well as an individual.

Professional development means activities that develop and/or maintain an individual's skills, knowledge, expertise and other characteristics as a trainer or assessor. This includes both formal and informal activities that encompass vocational competencies, currency of industry skills and knowledge and practice of vocational training, learning and assessment, including competency based training and assessment. Examples of professional development activities include:
       a) participation in courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, or formal learning programs;
       b) participation in mentoring, professional associations or other learning networks;
       c) personal development through individual research or reading of publications or other relevant information;
       d) participation in moderation or validation activities; and
       e) participation in industry release schemes.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) means an assessment process that assesses the competency/s of an individual that may have been acquired through formal, non‑formal and informal learning to determine the extent to which that individual meets the requirements specified in the training package or VET accredited courses.
       a) formal learning refers to learning that takes place through a structured program of instruction and is linked to the attainment of an AQF qualification or statement of attainment (for example, a certificate, diploma or university degree);
       b) non‑formal learning refers to learning that takes