What is Register Radar?

Register Radar is an Australian service that turns a superseded training product into a transition record. Every morning, before the Australian working day, it reads training.gov.au — Australia's national register of vocational education and training — and for each superseded product on a registered training organisation's live scope it reads off the item 14 legal clock: the date new enrolments into the old product must stop. The paid part then measures each of the RTO's own learners against the current qualification, dated.

The clock is computed from what the register already publishes, so it's free. What the register can never publish — where your own learners stand — is the one thing we charge for. One person, self-funded, founded 2026, Australia only.

What it does

  • Reads your whole live scope against the register and tells you which products are superseded — not the historical entries the register publishes alongside it, which quietly inflate a naive count.
  • Reads off the item 14 clock. For every superseded product on your scope it shows the date new enrolments must stop — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i), as ASQA's published guidance reads it; later if ASQA has granted an extension). And it's explicit about the second clock: students already enrolled have no fixed deadline — they finish, certify or transfer in a timely manner. The date is computed from something the register already publishes: the day the replacement was first released.
  • Resolves the supersession chain. Often the replacement has itself been superseded; we follow it to whatever is current today, and show the register's own equivalence marking on every hop.
  • Watches your scope and emails you when a move changes what you have to do — a qualification superseded, a core unit superseded, a replacement marked NOT equivalent, or a new-enrolment clock starting. An elective whose replacement is equivalent doesn't email you; it still shows in your reports. The first email is your full report; after that, a watch email always means a change.
  • Crosses your live scope against the National Schedule of Training Product Development, so you can see what is being redeveloped before it lands.
  • Publishes a page for every training product on the register — one per qualification, skill set, unit and accredited course — with its status and its chain.

What it is not

  • Not a compliance management platform. No validation schedules, no risk register, no TAS, no QMS, no professional-development evidence. It does one thing — it reads the national register every morning, Australian time, and tells you what changed on your scope, down to whether each replacement is flagged not equivalent — and it is built to sit alongside whatever else you already run.
  • Not a regulator and not affiliated with one. We are not ASQA and we have no relationship with the department. We restate a public register; whether a supersession requires anything of you sits between you and your regulator.
  • Not an auditor. We never assess anyone's compliance and never say anyone is non-compliant. We read the register and the legislation; we do not assess compliance. We say what the register publishes, and we say what we cannot see.
  • Not a student management system. We do not hold enrolments. Who is enrolled in what only lives in your own system — and that is exactly the boundary the paid part exists to cross, with a de-identified list you send us.
  • Not a newsletter. There is one scheduled email in the whole product and it is off by default. Everything else arrives because the register moved.

The questions people actually ask

What is Register Radar?
Register Radar is an Australian service that turns a superseded training product into a transition record. Every morning, before the Australian working day, it reads training.gov.au — the national register of vocational education and training — and for each superseded product on a registered training organisation's live scope it reads off the item 14 legal clock: the date from which new enrolments into the old product are not permitted, computed from the date the replacement was included on the register. The paid part then measures each of the RTO's own learners against the current qualification, dated.
Who is it for?
Registered training organisations in Australia, and the compliance managers, CEOs and consultants who look after their scope of registration. It is not for learners.
Is Register Radar the same as a compliance management platform?
No. It does not do validation, risk registers, TAS, quality management systems or professional-development evidence. It does one thing: every morning it reads the national register and tells you what changed on your scope, including whether the register flags each replacement as not equivalent, and the date the law stops new enrolments into it. It is built to sit alongside whatever else you already run.
What does it cost?
Everything computed from the public register is free and stays free: the scope check, the supersession chain, the unit-by-unit map, the item 14 transition clock, and the watch. The only paid part is The Transition File, which measures each of your own learners against the current qualification — from $290 AUD a month, sized by your live scope.
Where does the data come from?
Entirely from training.gov.au, the Australian Government's national register, which is public. We restate and recompute what it publishes; we do not add private data to it and we do not assess anyone's compliance. Where the register is silent, we say so rather than guess.
Why does a superseded product matter?
Because transitioning it is a legal requirement, not a preference — item 14 of the 2025 compliance standards (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025), which binds ASQA-registered providers. Once a replacement enters the register, the old product closes to new enrolments a year later — s 14(1)(a)(i), as ASQA's published guidance reads it; extensions exist, so the date is never absolute. Students already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they finish, certify or transfer in a timely manner. We restate the register and the legislation; whether any of this requires something of you sits between you and your regulator.
Do you need access to our student data?
No. The free service needs only a public RTO code. The paid Transition File uses a de-identified list — a reference and the units completed, no names. The enrolment cross-check on registerradar.com/cross runs entirely inside your own browser: the file never leaves your machine.
Who runs it?
One person: Jonathan Fernandez, the founder. It is self-funded and was founded in 2026. A person reads every email sent to contact@registerradar.com.

How to judge it in two minutes

Do not take any of this on trust. Type your RTO code into the check on the front page: it reads your live scope from the register while you wait and shows you what it finds, with no account and no email. If the numbers are wrong, you will know in two minutes and you can close the tab. That is the fastest way to judge a service that sells accuracy — and it is why the check asks for nothing.

The same reading, done across every provider we could read: of 3,884 Australian RTOs with a current registration, 1,020 had at least one superseded qualification, accredited course or skill set on live scope — each one on an item 14 clock. Method and limits are on the study page.

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