Recent PSW Graduation Article
February 15, 2010 at 7:22 pm | Posted in psw, psw canada, psw school | 1 CommentTags: canada, newspaper, personal support worker, personal support worker canada, personal support worker school, psw canada, psw course, psw school
I was e-mailed a link the other day for a rare yet informative personal support worker newspaper article. It was published in the small market Bancroft This Week. The author visited a PSW graduation at Loyalist College. Nothing overtly ground breaking was reported, although the article did yield a few interesting quotes.
Here’s a quote from mature graduate Sherry Marshall:
“Returning to school as a mature student was a huge challenge and it feels great to now be a college graduate… I’m so glad that I returned to school because I would not be in this position today without my PSW certification.”
Tom Malloy, the Dean of Skills training at the school summed up the demand for this (and all courses) rather succinctly.
“Students are drawn to the fact that they are able to complete their certification within a short period of time, graduating with the qualifications necessary to work within the health-care field.”
This particular PSW Course can be taken in one of the two following formats. A compressed 24 week course and a longer 32 week version. Both include co-op placements.
For more information on this course you can visit Loyalist College . You can also check out the following link for a comprehensive listing of PSW Courses across Ontario
College Diploma Fraud Article from the Toronto Star
September 20, 2009 at 11:56 pm | Posted in psw, psw canada | Leave a commentTags: canada, media, newspaper, ontario, psw canada, Toronto Star
Toronto Star
This past week the Toronto Star posted an illuminating investigation on College’s selling fake diplomas.
The story features a reporter (DIANA ZLOMISLIC ) posing as a personal support worker student for at a private college in Toronto (Ontario Academy of Science and Technology). To make a long story short Diana pays the owner of the school, Ken Miller, $480 under the table to receive her PSW Certificate in two weeks. Obviously Diana did not complete the required in-class or co-op portions of the class. The owner even backdated the certificate to May 2009, to make it look like she didn’t just graduate, along with setting up fake co-op placement references.
I look at this article in a couple of different ways. Firstly, I hope that the findings of this investigation does not turn individuals off hiring or leaving seniors in the care of qualified personal support workers. Secondly, I hope this article and the potential backlash from it gets the Ontario government to get their act in gear and shut these scam schools down. The article outlines that they have been under investigation for three weeks. The PSW industry and others taught at private colleges across the province are at risk of losing credibility in the public’s eyes.
It’s an interesting read to say the least. The link to the article is at the top of this post.
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