Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority

We regulate education and training providers in Victoria.

Our strategic purpose

We regulate for quality learning outcomes Regulation aims to eliminate or minimise harm. For the us, harm includes physical, psychological, emotional and financial harms, and reductions in individual and societal benefits of education and training.

Who we regulate?

school education providers, including approval on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) for courses delivered by schools

Senior secondary education providers (both school and non-school providers) including approval on CRICOS for school sector courses

School boarding premises

children for home schooling in Victoria

Organisations to award senior secondary qualifications

vocational education and training (VET) providers that deliver accredited training to domestic students in Victoria only, or Victoria and Western Australia only.

We also:

Appoint review bodies

Regulate apprenticeships and traineeships in Victoria

Monitor group training organisations in Victoria

Approve school and non-school providers as overseas secondary student exchange organisations

Accredit courses and register qualifications for VRQA-registered providers and senior secondary courses and qualifications in Victoria

Investigate complaints against our registered providers

Maintain a register of all education and training organisations we register and the accredited courses they deliver

Act to protect the interests of students as consumers of education or training services.

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