The next cut-off after September lands on 25 November

Two superseded training products — both from the electrotechnology package that is the entry door to the electrical trades — reach their computed item 14 enrolment cut-off on 25 November 2026. Because each sits on many providers' scopes at once, that is 52 scope-level cut-offs across 45 ASQA-regulated providers, on a single day.

Most of the sector's attention is on the 4–5 September wave, and fairly: it is 835 cut-offs in forty-eight hours. But that coverage hides the number that matters here: 21 of these 45 providers — 47% — are not in the September wave at all. For them, 25 November is the first computed item 14 date their scope has ever had. Everything published about “the September cliff” simply does not speak to them.

This is arithmetic the register publishes the inputs for and never performs. It is not a breach finding about anyone, and nothing here says a provider has done something wrong.

What closes, and what replaces it

Both rows were re-read straight from the live register on 25 August 2026 rather than trusted from our stored measurement: both products carry usageRecommendation: superseded, each maps to exactly one replacement, and the register flags both mappings equivalent. The computed date is the replacement's inclusion date — 25 November 2025, a single release for each — plus one year.

Equivalent matters, and it is worth saying in full: nobody on this page is being told to re-train a cohort. The register records that outcomes carry across. What closes on 25 November is the enrolment window for the superseded codes — new learners go into UEE22025 or UEE22125 instead, provided those codes are on scope by then.

The 21 providers hearing this clock for the first time

24 of the 45 providers in this wave also hold a September cut-off — a community services or engineering product on the same scope. Whatever they have set up for September covers November too: same rule, same two clocks, different date.

The other 21 hold UEE22020 or UEE22120 and nothing from the September eight. Their scope has never had a computed item 14 date before this one. That is the practical reason this page exists: a provider whose first cut-off arrives in November has three months today, and the single decision that takes lead time — getting the replacement code onto scope, which means an application to ASQA if it is not there — is exactly the one worth starting early.

Why one package, one day

The register moves in training package releases, so scopes inherit dates in blocks: when the UEE Electrotechnology package released its updated Certificate II products on 25 November 2025, every provider carrying the old codes inherited the same computed cut-off a year out. It is the same mechanism that built the September cliff — at a smaller scale, in a single trade, on a single day.

These are the entry-level products of the electrical apprenticeship pathway — the codes a pre-apprenticeship student enrols into before an employer takes them on. A provider that delivers them typically plans intakes around school terms and employer demand, which is why a hard date on new enrolments is worth knowing a season in advance rather than a fortnight.

What a provider can still decide

1. Check whether the replacement is on scope. If UEE22025 (or UEE22125) is already there, the date costs you nothing: new enrolments simply go into the new code. If it is not, adding it is an application to ASQA — the one step with lead time.
2. Plan the last intake into the old code. Any intake that closes before 25 November 2026 can still enrol into UEE22020 — later if ASQA has granted an extension. From that date, new learners need the replacement.
3. Leave enrolled learners off this clock. They finish, or move across, in a timely manner. Nothing about 25 November changes their position.

How this was measured

Counted from the register-wide read of 20 August 2026 across the 3,628 ASQA-regulated RTOs with current registration — item 14 binds providers registered by the national regulator; VRQA and TAC providers sit under their own arrangements and are not counted. The computed date is the replacement's inclusion date plus one year. The split of the 45 providers (24 also in September, 21 first-timers) was re-counted from the raw scope data on 25 August 2026 and reconciles exactly. Both supersession chains were re-read from the live register the same night. We read the register and the legislation; we do not assess compliance.

Your own dates

Whether either of these codes is on your scope — and every other computed cut-off your scope carries, September's included — is one line away: type an RTO code on the home page. Free, no account, no card.