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qualifications required for unarmed security guards and crowd
controllers need to be accurately aligned to the job roles.”
Hence the report’s recommendations focus on collaboration
between the parties ASQA believes need to lift their game, particularly
training package developers and policymakers in the various
jurisdictions: “This review proposes that training package developers
and jurisdictional licensing authorities collaborate to ensure that
nationally recognised portable qualifications meet the skill-related
requirements of licences to facilitate the movement of skilled labour.”
To assist the collaboration, ASQA volunteers to engage with the
licensing authorities and even form a strategic partnership with
them. All of which seems eminently sensible. But as with many
recommendations in the previous five ASQA strategic reviews, it
sounds good but will it happen?
TOOTHLESS RECOMMENDATIONS
The ASQA report on the security industry rehashes a raft of
fundamental flaws in the VET system that will not be fixed unless
the authority’s recommendations are accepted and effective
changes are made. For instance, as with previous reports, the
authority found that poor quality training and assessment practices
abound in the security industry. Surely this state of affairs must and
will be changed to address the following:
“The non-compliances identified during ASQA’s audits included
serious deficiencies in assessment such as: inaccurate and poor
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