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We have a certification system for every skill in Australia. Are you a Probation and Parole officer? A preschool worker? An ambulance worker? Working in the foo
by pdm55 5y ago
We have a certification system for every skill in Australia. Are you a Probation and Parole officer? A preschool worker? An ambulance worker? Working in the food industry selling cheese? You will need a certificate for these skills. Have you been doing the job for 20 years? Sorry.
From about 2002, Australian Quality Training Framework (now reorganised as the Australian Quality Framework) deemed you unable to continue working in your area of expertise and demanded you get certification. Outward Bound instructors with 20 years experience would suddenly find that a neophyte with a certificate was deemed able to direct dangerous rock climbing experiences, while they could only look on in dread.
Certification was a turf fight between different bureaucracies: State versus Federal. Of course, the Federal Government won the battle, as they controlled the purse strings. University qualifications and technical college qualifications, all provided by state institutions, were ignored. A plumber had no need to sit a technical college exam. A federally-approved privately-run Registered Training Organisation (RTO) could provide you with the appropriate certification. It was all too easy. Hand over the money and take the certification test. The hack for a fork lift driver's certificate was to turn over the test paper: the answers were written on the back!
It should have been a national scandal. But, of course, we Aussies are too compliant. And in the end, the federal bureaucrats expanded their empires. I seem angry. And yes I am. Worthless paper certification is hiding the risks being taken with Australia’s future.
- moritonal 5y agoThat is biased towards people who succeed in education. The trade jobs are traditionally where the disabled/dyslexic/neuro-quirky(?) excel IMHO because of the one-size-for-all nature of exams.
- emmelaich 5y agoI've been hearing / seeing ads for this recently in Aus. https://qualifyme.edu.au/rpl-skills-trade-recognition/ https://qualifyme.edu.au/rpl-skills-trade-recognition/ Pretty sure it's a revenue raiser and does fuck-all for anyone else.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI mostly agree, and this isn't a defense of certs, but - > You will need a certificate for these skills. Have you been doing the job for 20 years? Sorry. I've encountered an alarming number of people with decades of "experience" who were in fact incompetent. Certs are a bad solution, but they're a bad solution to a real problem.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Certification was a turf fight between different bureaucracies: State versus Federal. Of course, the Federal Government won the battle, as they controlled the purse strings. University qualifications and technical college qualifications, all provided by state institutions, were ignored. A plumber had no need to sit a technical college exam. A federally-approved privately-run Registered Training Organisation (RTO) could provide you with the appropriate certification. It was all too easy. Hand over the money and take the certification test. The hack for a fork lift driver's certificate was to turn over the test paper: the answers were written on the back! It truly is "The Lucky Country".