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Making friends with new ideas – tertiary system reforms at AQF 5-6
While the nation awaits future policy directions on ‘post schooling’ education and training following the outcomes of the 2019 federal election, there are a number of Government initiated reviews and consultations ongoing, as well as other published independent policy proposals. The sense is that the present policy malaise will be heaved along in 2019 by the outcomes of these formal reviews, and by stakeholder ideas expressed in thought-leadership proposals mounting up outside of government.
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From a curriculum design perspective, Training Packages and Higher Education data about courses is akin to Harry Potter’s ‘Platform 9 3/4’. These different approaches to choices about curriculum data further polarise differences and really get in the way of pathway development.
One possible solution is to adopt Eisenhower’s idea that “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it”. Specifically, support on the bridging work accrediting organizations can play. Invite organisations such as Engineers Australia, the ACS and AHPRA to align their competency frameworks. The data is largely there, the coordination not so much.