Thread: Qualifications

Was it just a co-incidence the tradies colour is maroon, and Bsc colour blue, with the state of origin coming up? CARN. THE MAROONS!!!! Good to see the High School & TAFE members catching up. Bob

This thread got me thinking about what qualifications were gained during my 21 yrs. in the Grey Funnel Line, apart from the Trade Certificate.A quick glance thru my Record of Training & Employment came up with the following;

Certificate of Competency : 1. 1st Class Internal Combustion Engine Drivers Certificate
2. 1st Class Steam Engine Drivers Certificate [ steam]

Issued as civilian equivelants of 1. Engine Room Watchkeeping Certificate 2 .Boiler Watchkeeping Certificate [ steam ]

Satisfactorily completed ;
Advanced welding course
machinary charge certificate [ steam]
advanced damage control course
Daring Class Destroyer experience
, Guided missile Destroyer experience
Patrol Boat charge MTP course
Attack class patrol boat experience
Fremantle class patrol boat charge mtp course
Fremantle class patrol boat experience
The ZF gearbox maintainers course

Qualified to instruct;
Firefighting practical
Advanced damage control course [ fire fighting/ Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical defence]

How I ever found the time for all that between wine ,women & song [ ahhhh... the memories ] is beyond me, lucky we spent a lot of time at sea, I guess. Bob

Originally Posted by isuzurover

All TAFE courses, so fit into the last category.

Hello Isuzurover,

They might be now but when I did my Associate Diploma Farm Management (Horticulture) it was through Queensland Agricultural College. This now sadly missed institution was then on par with the old Colleges of Advanced Education. It was only after Dawkins stuck his finger in the education pie that the CAEs upgraded to unis or had to disappear. Back then TAFE handled "Trade Certificates" CAE offered "Technical" diplomas including teaching; and then university covered the applied and theoretical degree side of things.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Hello All,

I left school three times - Year 10 for a trade which fell through so I went back to school. I left school in Year 11 for a trade which fell through. Reluctantly I finished and deliberately failed Year 12. I then went for a trade - which fell through. I worked in different fields for 3 years and I hit 21 years old got into Queensland Agricultural College through mature age entry. I scrapped through my Associate Diploma of Farm Management Horticulture. I was never out of a job after doing that. I became a Trade Teacher Horticulture with Queensland TAFE, part of this was that I had to do a Bachelor of Adult Vocational Teaching at Griffith Uni. Taught at TAFE for 7 years - my last two years were teaching long term unemployed people exclusively. These were people who were forced to study … umm attend training – sometimes; or they would lose their dole. After two years of doing this I had gutful and went back to industry.

I then developed an eye complaint that left me unable to work in dust and dirt - yep an environment pretty hard to avoid working in the horticulture industry! Later due to the eye complaint I also became legally blind without rigid gas permeable contact lenses not so good in dust and dirt either. So I had to retrain. I went on to study a Bachelor of Communications; from there I progressed to do an Honour year. Now I am pretty close to finishing a PhD on Asperger's Syndrome. If I could still see properly and go back to my tools and work in the horticulture industry again - yep I would in a flash. So I am a semi-reluctant academic who loves Land Rovers because they are 1) like big Meccano sets; and 2) like the tractors that I used to work with in horticulture. I still have a 4WD tractor and Land Rovers are more comfortable than the tractor.

Well I suppose that is more than my two cents worth.

Kind Regards
Lionel

I have a BS in BS

Originally Posted by uninformed

I have a BS in BS

BS has a place in modern society, especially in politics. Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

BS has a place in modern society, especially in politics. Bob

most of those have done their phd in BS

No general Diploma levels on the poll, Lots of cert2,3,4s, Dip in Paramedical Science, Dip in OHS, Trade Cert.