Art Teacher (Private Tuition) (ANZSCO 249211)
On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Art Teacher (Private Tuition) on?
STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Art Teacher (Private Tuition) comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Art Teacher (Private Tuition) under Group B: a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher, with four different pathway options trading a lower qualification level for additional years of employment. The occupation description covers teaching students in the practice, theory and performance of art in private training establishments. VETASSESS excludes Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals — painters, potters, sculptors — from this code, and separately excludes school-level classroom teaching across the 241xxx codes, which fall under AITSL rather than VETASSESS.
Where these applications come unstuck
A registered school teacher running private after-hours art tuition can be assessed under this code only for work that sits outside the formal school curriculum — VETASSESS draws that line explicitly. An applicant with a fine-arts practice degree but no teaching component in their qualification or duties may also fall short of the highly relevant test, because the occupation description is about teaching, not practising the art form professionally.
An honest read on this pathway
STSOL placement gives this a genuinely usable pathway for private art tutors and studio teachers, reaching 190, 407, 491 and 494. Self-employed applicants without a conventional employer need to document hours, duties and continuity — invoices, enrolment records, timetables — since there is no payslip trail doing that work automatically; VETASSESS's specific supporting-evidence expectations for self-employment were not fully detailed on the pages checked for this family.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
Talk it through with a registered agent
Whether nominating Art Teacher (Private Tuition) is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.
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