I thought everyone had to be qualified to work in this field now?
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:46 am
What on earth is going on in this industry. I made a career change back to the field after a few years having left a decent paying office job and moving to an area that has multiple childcare centres on every street. So i live off lousy $200 a week austudy while i bust my gut to do my Cert III and have now signed up for diploma yet all the Certificate III jobs i saw earlier in the year that made this career seem promising are now non existant.
I rock up to my placement centre and maybe 4 out of 15 people actually have what i thought was the minimum qualification of Cert III. As the unpaid student i found myself helping the paid workers with their same schoolwork that i was miles ahead with and they have been just sitting on the first book for god knows how long.
I am now convinced that this new NQF is just a big farce. The parents and public believe the centres will now only employ qualifieds yet in fact all the centres have done is sign up all their non qualifieds for a cheapo $200 correspondance govt funded course and these people aren't even doing any of the work they are just sitting on the first module. They dont pay them as Cert III rightly so but it has taken jobs from those of us who have actually completed their Cert III's as there are now no assistant positions.
I rock up to my placement centre and maybe 4 out of 15 people actually have what i thought was the minimum qualification of Cert III. As the unpaid student i found myself helping the paid workers with their same schoolwork that i was miles ahead with and they have been just sitting on the first book for god knows how long.
I am now convinced that this new NQF is just a big farce. The parents and public believe the centres will now only employ qualifieds yet in fact all the centres have done is sign up all their non qualifieds for a cheapo $200 correspondance govt funded course and these people aren't even doing any of the work they are just sitting on the first module. They dont pay them as Cert III rightly so but it has taken jobs from those of us who have actually completed their Cert III's as there are now no assistant positions.