USI

Under the Unique Student Identifiers Act 2014, all RTOs must ensure they have a valid USI for any student that enrolls in nationally recognized training from 2015.  This means (unless you have an exemption issued by the USI registrar) that as a student you must either: 

• Provide us with your USI, or  

• Provide us with permission to access or create your USI on your behalf. 

For information about exemptions for individuals please review this webpage:  

If you are providing us with permission to access or create your USI, we will need a valid form of identification. The ID that you provide for this purpose will be destroyed once we have used it for this purpose. 

We are unable to issue a qualification or a statement of attainment unless we have a valid USI or a notice of exemption from the registrar. 

Under this Act, we are required to ensure that all students have a USI.  We are unable to issue a qualification of a statement of attainment for any student if we don’t have a USI on file.  

If you’re studying nationally recognized training in Australia from 1 January 2015, you will be required to have a Unique Student Identifier (USI). Your USI links to an online account that contains all your training records and results (transcript) that you have completed from 1 January 2015 onwards. Your results from 2015 will be available in your USI account in 2016. 

For students and training organizations, the main benefits of the USI are: 

• Students will be able to get a complete record of their Australian-wide VET achievements from a single, secure and accurate online source. 

• There will be immediate access to VET records. This means they can be quickly given to employers, other training organizations etc as proof of VET achievements. 

• It will be easier for training organizations to assess students’ pre-requisites, credit transfers and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). 

 For more information about the USI please visit:  http://www.usi.gov.au/About/Pages/default.aspx