Community Education Conversations: A CCA Professional Development and Networking Event

CCA looks forward to welcoming you to our next professional development event at the Rooftop Conference Room, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne on Friday 12 May 2017:

  • Registration and coffee at 8.30am
  • Commencement at 9.00am
  • Close at 3.30pm
  • Location: The Rooftop Conference Room, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
  • Morning tea and lunch provided
  • Free to CCA members; $100 (plus GST) for non-members
  • Spaces are limited, on a first-come, first-served basis: reserve your place now by clicking on the Register Now button below.

Topics under discussion to include:

  • Setting the scene: Julie Neeson, Southern Grampians Adult Education and Community College, Hamilton
  • Auditing in the new age – a presentation by Kevin Ekendahl, Audit Express
  • Update on Skills First, by a representative of the VIC Department of Education and Training
  • The special case for community education providers in rural and regional Australia: challenges and opportunities, Dr Don Perlgut, CCA CEO
  • Community RTOs in Victoria: History, Scope, Scale, Success Factors and Prospects, By Dr Kaye Bowman, former Director of Research at NCVER and VET consultant
  • Foundations Skills Training Package: where are the consultations up to? Have your say - a session with Tim Rawlins, PwC Skills for Australia
  • What you need to know about the Commonwealth’s new VET Student Loans program, even if you will never use it
  • Community education providers and local and regional economic development roundtable discussion – come prepared to share your experiences
  • A new national community education infrastructure program – what’s happened since the last one in 2009?
  • Entrepreneurship and social enterprise

Click here to download the Community Education Conversations flyer.

And don’t forget CCA’s Annual Conference, to take place in Melbourne on 25-27 July 2017.

Thank you to Audit Express for sponsoring this event