The primary intent of the experience pathway is NOT to equate 10 years experience with a degree. It is to acknowledge that advisers with 10 years of experience will have significant higher education, including degrees in many cases, that wasn't appropriately recognised by FASEA.

It is about trying to fix some of the FASEA mess after the damage has been done, because Jane Hume refused to intervene at the time when it was clear FASEA had lost the plot.