A growing scandal at Charles Darwin University that saw it graduate an estimated 130 carpentry apprenticeship students without the proper qualifications is now estimated to affect “an additional 250 students” who may have to resit their qualifications in other areas, with the number expected to rise to potentially thousands of students, the NT Independent understands.
The accreditation bungle has already claimed the head of CDU TAFE chief executive Mike Hamilton who resigned last week, with the university pledging an internal review into the crisis will be completed by next week.
Why has the VC still got a job?
Good question. He probably wants to see through the set up of the ‘Campus’ in London. A total waste of money. He spends like a drunken sailor. Like what has been said – Get back to core business instead of spreading resources thinly trying to set up campuses outside of the NT. And employ qualified lecturers too! The place has been a sh*t show for years now.
Agree Charlie. He doesn’t have the academic qualifications to be a VC.
Charlie, the VC and executive of CDU, woke up one morning , several years ago, and was told
(a) The Chief Financial Officer had bolted
(b) There was a $15 million hole in the budget
(c) that his “Right Hand ‘Man'” managing a big IT project went and signed a 6 figure contract with a Big 4 Accounting organisation to manage the project, aforementioned was well paid to manage, without any VCs or executives knowing anything about it!
This administrative error with the quaifications is a slightly small storm in a tea cut!!!
Full transparency as to costs incurred should be provided. It’s not the CDU fronting up the money for this mess, it’s us taxpayers !
What can you expect when CDU Professor Boofhead was employed with only a TAFE Certificate, does not understand CDU Code of Conduct as demonstrated during the Middle Arm Senate enquiry which was embarrassing. The ALP lefties & CLP ‘job for mates’ have replaced merit, skills/qualifications with puppets who are ‘yes’ staff who tolerate corruption.