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Typical Chester - spin it around to politics and blame the Weatherill Labor government but you have got to wonder about CASA's oversight of this whole schmozzle...  

You are not wrong there!!

The Australian Skills Quality Authority are an absolutely useless outfit when it comes to oversight and auditing of the education system; having had first hand experience of their ineptitude.

And yet a piss weak outfit manages to uncover this while in the mean time, the supposedly ultimate governing regulatory body uncovers F all. FFS!!!!!  

Where's the broom?

CASA BOHICA!

Yet another update with Hartwig's pushing back...

Flying school disputes regulatory breach claims

• John Ross
  
• The Australian
  
• 5:08PM September 6, 2017
  

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An Adelaide aviation college has disputed accusations of regulatory breaches that have left its vocational training arm under a cloud.

Bruce Hartwig Flying School has challenged the national training regulator’s findings that triggered its May decision to cancel the college’s registration. That decision is now under review by the Adelaide registry of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

The Australian Skills Quality Authority found that the school had taught two certificates that it was not authorised to deliver, and broken other regulatory standards including failing to give students access to accurate records of their progress.

ASQA said had the college had also failed to comply with the rules of the VET FEE-HELP training loans program, by charging students fees for courses not permitted under the program.

College director David Johnston said the findings were untrue, and in any case related to a course established before he and fellow director David Blake bought the school in 2014.

“This is a historical issue relating to the previous owners,” he said.

Mr Johnston also disputed suggestions that the college had profiteered from state and federal skills funding schemes. He said the VET FEE-HELP rules had not been broken, with certificate-level training — which is not covered by the loan scheme — funded by extra “gap” fees paid by the students.

He said money obtained under South Australia’s Skills for All scheme had gone straight to the students. “Every cent of the Skills for All subsidy was applied to the students’ accounts in an effort to minimise their gap payments.”

Mr Johnston also disputed reports that none of a class of 20 students had passed an expensive advanced diploma course. He said 17 of them had opted to focus on obtaining flying licences rather than the vocational credential, after it became evident that some would struggle to finish the full course in time.

He said authorities had agreed to this “more flexible” arrangement, and more than ten of the students were now working as “fully qualified commercial pilots”.

An Australian Skills Quality Authority spokesman said the AAT had granted the college a stay, enabling it to operate without any restrictions until the review application was decided.

“As this matter is now before the tribunal, it would be inappropriate for ASQA to comment any further,” he said.

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