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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Hi Folks,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"> You all know that I don't like to stir any controversial issues but this post on whirlpool.net.au got me wondering what others thought about this issue:</font></div>
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<p>TAFE in WA after 1995 decided all teachers to have the Cert IV (Workplace Assessment). What a lot of rubbish that qualification is! Some of my colleagues had a Grad Dip Ed, some a Masters deg. in Ed. and some even a doctorate in Ed., bad luck, they all had
to do the Cert IV. TAFE just wanted to save themselves the teacher training I had to undergo, where I received a few hours off per week to attend lectures at WAIT (now Curtin uni) in the evenings but had to put the majority of time in myself. There is no more
teacher training for TAFE teachers, I believe it all has been privatised, meaning, you pay your $1,000 for this Cert IV rubbish with a private college to be eligible for TAFE employment.</p>
<p>Great for the bottom line of TAFE. <a href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1260928&p=-1#bottom">
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1260928&p=-1#bottom</a></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"> So much for teaching and learning, pedagogy and all the professional standards secondary teachers have to constantly work at whilst TAFE doesn't have to stress about this ... as much ?</font></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"> This really highlights the difficulties between secondaries and TAFEs working together. One approaches the challenge from teaching and learning and the other from the dollars, time, funding, with learning outcomes somewhere
down the bottom of the list.</font></p>
<p><font face="times new roman"> I am not having a go at the TAFE teachers caught up in the system, just the policy.</font></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman">Take Care</font></p>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Kevork Krozian<br>
<font face="tahoma">Digital Learning Manager</font><br>
<font face="tahoma">Forest Hill College</font></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2"><a href="mailto:k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au">k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
<font face="tahoma">Tel: 0419 356 034</font></font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Paul Kingston [paul@ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 1 September 2009 9:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kevork Krozian<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Request for copy of your CERT IV in Workplace Assessment<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">LOL I have just move 1/2 my office to Ringwood and there is paperwork everywhere at the moment. I will try and find it at home if not I hope to find it at Ringwood tomorrow
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On 1/09/09 10:17 AM, "Kevork Krozian" <<a href="UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">K.Krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Hi Paul,<br>
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Your Cert IV may be valid. The auditor wants a copy of it to check if it is current.<br>
Can you by any chance bring it with you on Wednesday so we can fax it for verification ?<br>
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Take Care<br>
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Kevork Krozian<br>
Digital Learning Manager<br>
Forest Hill College<br>
<a href="UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
Tel: 0419 356 034<br>
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