Our AGM was held on 30 May 2019 in Sydney, hosted by our Member Association the Australian Computer Society. Here is a summary of the Report given to the Member Associations present: The Australian Council of Professions is a not-for-profit organisation comprised of professional associations and organisations that share the vision of building and maintaining […]
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Congratulations to the 2019 Client Choice Awards finalists and winners: ClientChoiceAwards.net/past-awards-2019
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The inaugural National Micro‐Credentials Accreditation Summit on 7&8 March in Melbourne was a run‐away success with over 270 registrations. We had to extend the event to two days and change the venue twice to accommodate the interest in the Summit! After an inspiring Welcome to Country our keynoters A/Prof Marcus O’Donnell (Pro‐Vice‐Chancellor Education, Deakin University),
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The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in 2016 commissioned an Independent Review of Accreditation Systems (ASR) to explore and address concerns about cost, transparency, duplication and prescriptive approaches to accreditation functions. The final report was considered by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) and publicly released in October 2018. We were invited to comment
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A Members-Only Round-Table on Professionalism and Ethics was held by ACoP on 17 November 2018 in Melbourne. A keynote by Dr Wim VanDeKerckhove PhD, Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW) at the University of Greenwich UK and a global leader in whistleblowing management standards was followed by presentations by A/Prof
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“On behalf of the Board of the Australian Council of Professions, I am saddened to advise of the passing last weekend of our former President, colleague and friend, Brenda Aynsley OAM FACS CP. Brenda was respected by us all as a leader and mentor within the Australian Computer Society, the Australian Council of Professions and
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On behalf of the Board, it is with regret that I advise that our CEO Liz Lang will be leaving Professions Australia (aka the Australian Council of Professions – ACoP) to pursue a new opportunity as the ACT Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Architects. Over the last 3 ½ plus years, working with
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Today the Australian Council of Professions Ltd at a Special General Meeting approved a new Constitution. Generously hosted by Speech Pathology Australia in Melbourne, the only item of business before the SGM was approving the following a special resolution: That the current constitution of the company be replaced with the proposed new constitution, a copy
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This year again we participated in the International Women’s Day celebration held National Surveyors House in Deakin, Canberra. Organised by the Australia India Business Council ACT ‘Women in Business’ Chapter, the event celebrated the ‘Colour of Versatility’ and was lead by Anna Palathinkal from our Member Professional Association the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI).
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