TAFE SA Audit

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:58): Supplementary: in relation to the internal auditing process that the minister referred to in her answer just then and in her ministerial statement, how many of the 16 courses found to be noncompliant by ASQA have been subject to that internal auditing process within TAFE?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:58): I don't have the details yet, although I have asked for it, of exactly all the courses partly because the way the internal auditing works in TAFE is that work groups are examined rather than qualifications. Some work needs to be done to crosscheck that, so I have made those inquiries. More importantly, regardless of however recently those particular courses have been assessed by TAFE internally, they have been audited by the national accrediting body; it is the others I want to make sure that we have an accurate process for internal auditing and checking the quality.