Overseas students have conditions attached to their student visa which they must always adhere to. CRICOS providers must inform the Australian Government of any overseas student who they have identified as in breach of those visa conditions to the Department via Provider Registration and International Student Management System (PRISMS).

Providers should educate their students on student visa conditions (specifically 8202, 8518, and 8533 among all other visa conditions) including the consequences of breaching those student visa conditions. This video explains how to report these student visa breaches and what should providers consider before reporting these breaches on PRISMS.

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In this video, I talk about the recent updates in the VET sector:

1. Training Package Products Development and Endorsement Process (TPD) Policy – Shared originally by another colleague here at LinkedIn, Michelle Charlton, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) has updated the TPD Policy to reflect the role of Jobs & Skills Councils (JSCs) and the TPD process map.

2. Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) – Submissions on the JSA discussion paper closed on 10th Feb. JSA is doing VET Qualification Similarity Analysis. The outputs of the model are available in a new searchable dashboard. More than 1300 VET training package qualifications have been analysed using natural language processing methods. These methods were applied to calculate the similarity across the units within the course, the course descriptions, and the frequency of keywords within these texts. They’ve also published a paper outlining the methodology used in the process for anyone who wants to understand the method.

In the recent JSA webinar, interim director, Professor Peter Dawkins talked about JSA’s initial priorities. The webinar highlighted how JSA will be different from the work that National Skills Commission was doing and the most important difference being JSA will be engaging with the key stakeholders.

3. Proposed Qualification Model – There were a couple of informative sessions again last week outlining the proposed qualification models. If someone needs to provide feedback on the proposed model, it can be done until 17 March through an online survey on the DEWR website.

4. International Education – According to the recent update, it has been found that there has been a slight increase in student visa approvals for Australia. Also in a recent report released by the Department of Education on international student numbers in Australia, it shows that there has been a 7% increase in numbers in the last year (i.e., from Jan 2022- Nov 2022) as compared to the same period a year before. Thanks to Krishna Pokharel for sharing this information.

StudyPerth is taking a lot of initiatives to support international students. The recent launch of the JobFinder WA Program is one of the examples. This program is designed for international students and graduates to help them connect with local employers who are willing to take international students on board.

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And this is my first attempt at a video post

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It has the capability of performing a vast majority of text-generating jobs, including those that demand the use of natural language for expression.

With the launch of ChatGPT, the education sector is talking about the risks of plagiarism, inadequate originality, and students’ over-reliance on AI. And if talking about the VET sector, the AI bots like ChatGPT will not impact VET as much as Higher Education, yet, in the short term, due to VET’s competency-based assessments. But this technology has the ability to contextualize, adapt and constantly learn which is nascent at this stage no doubt, will be evolved in no time. So its impact on the wider education sector is inevitable.

Plagiarism can be prevented by the use of anti-plagiarism training and software as well as through increased awareness of the issue among students but there needs to be a change in the way students are assessed. And with VET Qualifications Reforms underway, there is a possibility to improve the model in way that can reduce the possibility of plagiarism through AI (AIgirism).

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