Victorian Post-Secondary Education Accreditation Board

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Establishment

The Victorian Post-Secondary Education Accreditation Board (VA 3066) was established under the provisions of the Post Secondary Education (Amendment) Act 1987 (No. 33). The board inherited the function of accreditation of courses in the advanced education sector from Victorian Post-Secondary Education Commission VA 4085 and the accreditation of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) courses from the TAFE Accreditation Board VA 3082.

Functions

The Victorian Post-Secondary Education Accreditation Board was responsible for accreditation of courses in all post-secondary education sectors of TAFE and advanced education (excluding the university sector).

Victorian Post-Secondary Education Accreditation Board (VPSEAB) was required:

- to monitor the setting of minimum educational standards for courses
conducted in colleges and institutions
- to facilitate increased access to, and movement between, educational
sectors
- to promote efficiency in the use of government resources with respect to
accreditation of courses
- to facilitate enhanced responsiveness of the education system to new
technologies and to the requirements of industry.

It was a statutory authority reporting to the Minister. It assessed courses referred to it by the State Training Board (VA 3002) and the Victorian Post-Secondary Education Commission (VA 721).

Abolition

In December 1990 the Board met for the last time as its functions and responsibilities were subsumed into the State Training Board (3002) following proclamation of section 9 (1) (d) of the Vocation Education Training Act 1990.

The implementation of the National System of Higher Education removed responsibility for the accreditation of Higher Education programs from VPSEAB. The responsibility gradually passed to the colleges in the Higher Education sector. Responsibility for accreditation in TAFE went to various industry accreditation boards established and controlled by the State Training Board