The insurers are already looking at the price tag
The Board sells the five-year degree as a faster pathway. Medibank's submission asks the question students should be asking: how will funders pay a lower-qualified psychologist?
Regulation & standards
Registration, the Board, and standards for the profession.
When the complaints body flags a safety risk, you listen
The Psychology Council of NSW, the body that deals with complaints about psychologists, warned that an AQF 8 entry standard could expose graduates to unsafe practice.
When a university says it might "exit the market entirely", believe it
The five-year degree is pitched as a way to train more psychologists, faster. The University of Western Australia's submission warns it could leave us with fewer.
The supervision bottleneck: solving the wrong problem
A quarter of Australian psychologists are Board-approved supervisors. So why is everyone screaming about a supervision shortage? Because the system doesn't pay them to supervise.
Did the Psychology Board forget 2022, or are they hoping we did?
Four years ago the Board closed the undergraduate-heavy pathway into psychology. Now it proposes a five-year undergraduate degree. Both can't be right.
The five-year psychology degree is a Trojan horse. Let's look at the maths.
The proposed five-year degree is sold to exhausted students as a faster pathway. Look inside: hundreds of hours of unpaid placements and a qualification downgraded to AQF Level 8.
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Whats going on at the APS?
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