Click here to begin. We welcome submissions from anyone in the world of education, for inclusion in this section. In theory, a course that is developed fast, with little consideration given to accreditation, might be more relevant and valuable than one that has undergone a formal accreditation process. Some of the new training packages that have been developed for particular industry sectors have not proved as popular as government education authorities would have you believe. Feedback we have received from many horticultural educators and industry members, for example, has indicated that there are concerns over how assessment of competencies is to be carried out, and who is going to pay for such assessment.
Many horticultural trainers are concerned over the new approach to training in the industry.
In the previous system, the figure was over 2000 hours. In 1971, when I graduated with a Diploma from a Victorian college, the figure was well over 4000 hours. It is argued that time does not matter, and that some people learn faster than others. This is correct. He did 4000 plus hours in the classroom, and not much more, whereas I did the same classroom hours, plus perhaps a further 2000 hours of study on weekends and in the evenings.