Federation U signs-on for the government’s low-cost, six-month certificate course in national priority industries

With Fed U’s eleven there are now 150 plus on offer.

When Education Minister Dan Tehan announced the courses there was scepticism as to whether they would be worth universities while to teach and questions, which continue, about the credibility of “undergraduate certificates.”  But, with Fed U now in, 21 universities have now decided that some new federal funding is better than none.

And while “undergraduate certificate” strikes some experts as a credential oxymoron, they can only be issued by TEQSA approved self-accrediting HE providers and are part of the Australian Qualifications Framework, although they may not continue to be issued after December ’21.