September 18, 2003

The re-accreditation process

As I write this, the External Review Panel for the re-accreditation of our Graduate Diploma is meeting in the next room. This process, a requirement of the Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board (VETAB), is designed to make sure the Course is reviewed by appropriate people in the field who are qualified to determine that it accords with the National Accreditation Principles.

To adhere to these Principles, a Course must:

Meet an identified industry, enterprise or community training need
Complies with the Australian Qualifications Framework (e.g. the definition of a Graduate Diploma)
Not unnecessarily limit access or participation (e.g. does not discriminate against applicants and encompasses access and equity principles)
Provides credit transfer to other qualifications
Can be customised if necessary or required to meet the needs of clients
Has assessment methods that are consistent with any nationally endorsed competency standards and are consistent with the National Assessment Principles
Includes monitoring and evaluation processes that are used to maintain the relevance of the Course.

It is an arduous process, bound up in bureaucracy, which requires reams of paperwork and struggle with acronyms, jargon and issues that have nothing at all to do with the content of the Course itself. One thing it does ensure is that submission writing skills get dusted off, patience and tolerance get a working over and staff time is eaten up in large chunks. Thank heavens it only comes up every five years!

Posted by andrea at September 18, 2003 07:39 PM

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This process does of course, give enormous credibility to the Graduate Diploma in Childbirth Education, which remains the only Course of its kind offered in Australia.

With more and more hospitals cutting back, or in some cases ceasing to offer prenatal education sessions, and with parents expecting a more professional standard from their educator, the need for appropriately qualified childbirth educators will surely increase.

After brousing through the Graduate Diploma pages on your web site and reading some of the "success stories" of graduates, it is clear that the course can lead to a very satisfying career.

Sign me up!

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