Simon Marginson's article On competency-based training in Arena Magazine no. 1 is a welcome contribution to the chronicle of the method's destructive capacities. While informed resistance within the universities proceeds, the adoption of competency-based training within vocational training settings is well advanced, both in its official promotion and in the ardent loyalty which the method now appears to command from curricula designers. Last October at a seminar in Brisbane, I saw first-hand the extent to…
