Why doesnt ANTA recognise distance education?
• A large number of the public use Natural Therapists as their primary healthcare practitioner and we believe that primary health care practitioners should be educated in on-campus facilities. • If the Natural Therapists industry wants to be recognised with the same status as the Medical Profession then we have to have the same standard of training – all medical practitioners are trained in on-campus facilities. • Registration of practitioners is being considered by more state governments. We do not believe that state government registration bodies will register Natural Therapists educated by distance education. • We are not aware of any health funds that recognise Natural Therapists as providers who have completed distance education courses. • ANTA acknowledges courses can contain components of self directed learning (i.e. a certain amount of home study is required by the student) and have flexible learning options (i.e. online face to face lectures) and these courses are assessed by
