Monthly Archives: July 2017

A senior Australian higher education commentator laid out a comprehensive critique of tertiary education funding at the Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Annual Conference in Melbourne on Wednesday 26 July. Professor Peter Noonan, who is a Professor of Tertiary Education Policy at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University in Melbourne, gave a speech...

Three national political leaders have praised Australia’s adult and community education (ACE) providers at last week’s Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Annual Conference. “CCA warmly welcomes the positive words and commitments that the Commonwealth Skills Minister, Labor Shadow Skills Minister and Victorian Skills Minister made to ACE providers,” said Dr Don Perlgut, CCA CEO. “It is...

Dr Don Perlgut, CEO of Community Colleges Australia (CCA), comments on the latest VET news in this article. The “long tail” of impact of the much discredited and severely abused Commonwealth Government vocational education and training (VET) loans scheme, VET FEE-HELP, continues. Last week’s article in the Fairfax press (“Former Sage students still...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has announced the finalists for the 2017 “Community Education Student of the Year”, as part of this year’s Annual Conference. The official Awards announcement will take place at the CCA Conference “Gala Dinner”, to be held on Wednesday 26 July 2017 at The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne. The Student of the...

Australia’s community education sector has continued to hold its own in providing vocational education and training (VET), despite a national decline government-funded VET activity. The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) has released the 2016 results of Government-funded VET students and courses. On two of the three measures from the NCVER Report, Australia’s community VET...