Client Choice Awards 2019
Congratulations to the 2019 Client Choice Awards finalists and winners: ClientChoiceAwards.net/past-awards-2019
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Micro-Credentials Summit 7&8 March 2019
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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Accreditation Systems Review (ASR)
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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DET Policy Briefing Draft
In December 2018/January2019 we collated your feedback on behalf of the Department of Education and Training (DET) for a Ministerial briefing on the posibility of increased regulation of higher education course accreditation.With our Members we researched and compiled a comprehensive briefing draft that we delivered to DET in January 2019.It is our understanding that the
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TEQSA Industry Professional Bodies Forum
As a TEQSA MoU Partner since February 2017, we represented our Members at the “Industry Professional Bodies Forum” held by the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA) in December 2018. The event was intended to provide bodies who have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with TEQSA to articulate their thoughts and experiences.
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Professionalism and Ethics Forum 2018
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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Vale Brenda Aynsley OAM
“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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ACoP CEO takes up new Opportunity with Professional Association
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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Constitution Special General Meeting
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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