Open Training Institute

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Open Training Institute
TypeRegistered Training Organisation
Established2013
Address
Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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Headquarters in Melbourne
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CampusDistance learning
Website www.opentraining.edu.au

Open Training Institute was an online Registered Training Organisation (RTO) [1] based in Australia, owned by Open Universities Australia.

Open Universities Australia network of Australian universities offering distance education

Open Universities Australia (OUA) is an online higher education organisation based in Australia. The organisation was previously known as the Open Learning Agency of Australia. The chairman is Professor Bruce S. Dowton and the chief executive officer is Stuart Elmslie.

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Open Training Institute offered online Vocational Education Training (VET) courses across a number of business disciplines.

While the majority of enrolled students were based in Australia, courses were available to students internationally. With no entry requirements and no student quotas for courses, the Institute was "open" for all.

Open Training Institute offered 24 business qualifications online and provided two ways to study: self-paced or in a structured class.

Background

Open Training Institute was owned by Open Universities Australia. [2]

History

Open Training Institute launched on December 27, 2013. According to their official website, accessed 18 August 2017, "On 1 March 2016, Open Training Institute (RTO 40766) went into a teach-out phase and as a result, ceased all business operations as of 30 June 2017."

Y Factor

Open Training Institute launched with a brand advertising campaign featuring a fictional talent show called Y Factor. [3] The advertisements featured Australian TV stars Mark Holden and Kimberly Davies as celebrity judges.

Mark Ronald Holden is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "I Wanna Make You My Lady" (September), "Last Romance" (November) and "Reach Out for the One Who Loves You". Holden regularly appeared on national pop music show, Countdown. Holden is remembered for his clean-cut image, his white dinner suit and his penchant for handing out carnations to girls on the set of the popular television show Countdown – he was nicknamed "The Carnation Kid". In the 1980s he worked as a songwriter in Los Angeles providing material recorded by Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker, Gladys Knight, Bob Welch and Steve Jones. He was one of three original judges on the TV series Australian Idol (2003–07) and the first season (2005) of The X Factor.

The talents of the fictional contestants featured on the Y Factor were a claw machinist, an extreme dog groomer, a slipper kicker, a dance cup stacker, an anthem gargler, a food juggler and a gymnastic spoonist.

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References

  1. "MySkills". Australian Government. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. "Training.gov.au". Australian Government. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  3. Y Factor