From 1 January 2015 if you are undertaking nationally recognised training delivered by a registered training organisation you will need to have a Unique Student Identifier (USI). This applies whether you are doing a full qualification or a single Unit of Competence.
If you have a USI, you must provide it to Austrain Academy for verification with the Student Identifiers Registrar. Austrain Academy cannot issue a Statement of Attainment or Testamur and Record of Results without a verified USI. You must have activated your USI account.
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LOGIN TO YOUR ACCOUNT TO SHARE YOUR USI OR UPDATE YOUR DETAILS
We will use the number you provide as well as the name and date of birth and number from one of the forms of identification in Section 2 of the enrolment form. This identification information must be the same as when the USI was created.
You will need to access your USI account and provide permission for Austrain Academy to view your training records / transcript if you wish to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). You may also give Austrain Academy permission to view and update your account details.
If you do not already have a Unique Student Identifier (USI) and you want Austrain Academy to apply for a USI to the Student Identifiers Registrar on your behalf, Austrain Academy will provide to the Registrar the following items of personal information about you:
When we apply for a USI on your behalf the Registrar will verify your identity through the Document Verification Service (DVS) managed by the Attorney-General's Department. This service is built into the USI online application process and verifies documents such as a Medicare card, birth certificate, driver licence, Australian passport, citizenship document, certificate of registration by descent, ImmiCard or Australian entry visa.
If you do not have a document suitable for the DVS and we are authorised to do so by the Registrar we may be able to verify your identity by other means. If you do not have any of the identity documents mentioned above, and we are not authorised by the Registrar to verify your identity by other means, we cannot apply for a USI on your behalf and you should contact the Student Identifiers Registrar.
In accordance with section 11 of the Student Identifiers Act 2014 (SI Act), we will securely destroy personal information which we collect from you solely for the purpose of applying for a USI on your behalf as soon as practicable after the USI application has been made or the information is no longer needed for that purpose, unless we are required by or under any law to retain it.
The personal information about you that we provide to the Registrar, including your identity information, is protected by the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act). The collection, use and disclosure of your USI are protected by the SI Act.
If you ask Austrain Academy to make an application for a student identifier on your behalf, Austrain Academy will have to declare that Austrain Academy has complied with certain terms and conditions to be able to access the online student identifier portal and submit this application, including a declaration that Austrain Academy has given you the following privacy notice:
You are advised and agree that you understand and consent that the personal information you provide to us in connection with your application for a USI:
The Transcript Service has been activated on the 22 May 2017.
From that date, USI account holders will be able to generate an online transcript which collates all training details reported to the national VET collections that are linked to their USI since January 2015.
Once activated, an RTO who has permission set by a student within their USI account will also be able to view and download their student’s USI Transcript.
More information on how students can give their RTOs permission from within their USI account, available here. Remember, this is optional for students and you can remove or modify permissions at any time.
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You can find further information on how the Registrar collects, uses and discloses the personal information about you in the Registrar’s Privacy Policy www.usi.gov.au/Pages/privacy-policy.aspx or by contacting the Registrar on 13 38 73. The Registrar’s Privacy Policy contains information about how you may access and seek correction of the personal information held about you and how you may make a complaint about a breach of privacy by the Registrar in connection with the USI and how such complaints will be dealt with.
You may also make a complaint to the Information Commissioner about an interference with privacy pursuant to the Privacy Act, which includes the following:
For information about how Austrain Academy collects, uses, discloses and stores your personal information generally, including how you can make a complaint about a breach of privacy, please refer to Austrain Academy’s Privacy Policy and Student Record Policy which can be found in our Student Handbook.