Thursday, 18 August 2022

South Eastern Metropolitan Region

Mr RICH-PHILLIPS (South Eastern Metropolitan) (12:41): (1929) My constituency question is for the Minister for Higher Education and Minister for Training and Skills. It relates to Chisholm Institute’s certificate IV course in mental health, which was suspended by Chisholm Institute about four months ago, disrupting the studies of students that were participating in that course and delaying the commencement for new students from the July intake, after the course was deemed not to be up to industry requirements. This is one of the courses covered by the free TAFE program. It is a course that has been pushed by the government, but it has clearly run into substantial issues at Chisholm, with students having to suspend their studies while the mess is sorted out. So the question to the minister is: what circumstances led to Chisholm offering a course which did not meet the requirements of certificate IV and which has led to the disruption of studies for a substantial number of students?