Monthly Archives: September 2016

Australian vocational education and training may feel sometimes like a political football, but it also serves more than 4.5 million people, enrolling in more than 29 million subjects. How do we make sense of such a confusing sector, with its rapid changes in regulation, funding and the widely...

So, is it true, as American computer scientist Alan Kay once wrote, that “the best way to predict the future is to invent it”? We at Community Colleges Australia (CCA) believe so. That’s why we have used Alan Kay’s often-quoted statement as the “tag-line” for our 2016 Annual Conference, which has...

The governance of community education organisations will become a major focus at CCA’s Annual Conference in Sydney this October. The Conference’s sessions will complement CCA’s national, ongoing education project that provides technical assistance, strategic advice, mentoring and expertise to the chief executives and boards of directors of community education providers. This year the...

What’s the future of community education in Australia?  How do we envision new and innovative ways of doing things and how do we get there?  This year’s Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Annual Conference (Sydney, 18-20 October) focusses on these questions, highlighting both the challenges that the sector faces and its opportunities. Despite the relative...

We in Australia missed what Americans call “The Great recession”, right? Not exactly. Not if you’re young, and especially not if you’re young and living in regional or rural Australia. We have known this for some time.  Earlier this year, the Brotherhood of St Laurence published their report Australia’s Youth Unemployment Hotspots Snapshots, which...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has co-organised a lunchtime seminar on the upcoming US election in the Sydney CBD with WEA Sydney.  The session, entitled “America's Choice 2016: Who Will Win and Why”, features skilled political analyst Bruce Wolpe, speaking on Monday 10 October in the Sydney CBD.  Bruce is a former...