Department of Education
Unisa's Bpsych Equivalence Program misrepresented

In 2011 I registered with Unisa to do their course: Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Psychometry and Career Counselling. According to Unisa this course was "designed to enable a student to become a Registered Counsellor in one of the following fields: Trauma, Career and Pastoral Counselling. This course required an internship to be completed in 6 or 12 months that had to be approved by Unisa". After this one had to write the HPCSA's exam.

Last year when I started doing enquiries as to where I could do my internship in 2013 a psychologist informed me that Unisa was no longer going to oversee the current students' internships. The reason for this is the HPCSA are not accepting any Unisa students to write their board exams.

I then contacted Unisa and they confirmed this. When I contacted them I was abruptly told that this was not their fault but the decision of the HPCSA & that they felt the course was not practical enough. Why did Unisa and the HPCSA not make sure of this in the first place!

I am disappointed and shocked that they could get away with offering a course and then changing the goal posts. I paid for a course I cannot qualify in!

Company: Department of Education
Country: South Africa
City: National

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