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Ever thought you could do a better job than your strata manager? One way to find out what it takes could be to take the free course Sydney TAFE is offering to anyone interested in a basic introduction to Strata and Community Title management.
As well as providing the basic concepts of legal and statutory requirements, consumer and agency risk, for anyone interested in working as a Strata Manager, it satisfies NSW Fair Trading’s academic requirements for the Certificate of Registration.
The three-day course starts on Wednesday, 1 June 2016, and continues on Thursday, June 2 and Friday , June 3 from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm each day at Level 2, 827-837 George Street Haymarket (opposite Central Railway).
If you are interested in this course, phone (02) 9217 4811 or email si.courseinfobusinessfinance@tafensw.edu.au.
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This “course” may be sufficient for Strata Committees who want to learn more about how their Schemes are supposed to operate, but I have a couple of comments otherwise.
Firstly, throughout my working life I learnt that nothing’s free, and so I’m guessing that the Government has provided TAFE NSW with funding to cover the costs of providing the so called “course”, and as the only money that Governments have comes from direct and indirect taxes, that means we’re all paying.
Secondly, I’m continually amazed by the number of issues raised on this Forum concerning matters about which a properly educated Strata Manager should have been aware, and about matters where incorrect advice has been given by a Strata Manager who should know better.
Well now I know one of the answers……
If a person can complete a Government funded 3 day exam-free “course” and be then eligible for Registration as a Strata Manager, then even though they’re supposed to be working under the supervision of a fully licensed person, I’m afraid that the Department of Fair Trading is contributing to the further diminution of educational standards in NSW, in this case to the detriment of strata dwellers!
You know me too well Jimmy, and as usual you’re correct!!
So….it’s just that like after spending like almost 20% of my adult life studying at Universities at a time when a person could like actually fail, and then in my “mature years” completing a TAFE Cert IV in Property Services (Operations) so that I could concurrently learn more about how to better manage our Plan and keep my brain alive, and then subsequently using most of what I’d learnt in a number of real jobs over more than three (3) decades, I readily admit that I’m just a little obsessive (make that neurotic) about the value of a credible, and well-rounded education; one that’s both academically and practically derived.
*You’ll note also that I’m aware of (and annoyed by) the current vernacular where every conversation and notation must start with “so”, and where every few words must include the obligatory “like”.
So…..that said, I’ll now get off my educational and grammatical hobby-horses and get ready to re-mount the Flat Chat express!