The Australian Government’s new VET Student Loans program commenced on 1 January 2017, replacing the troubled and scandal-ridden VET FEE-HELP program.
CCA has welcomed the VET Student Loans program as bringing long-needed reforms to funding of VET students, but has noted that only a minority of community education providers utilised VET FEE-HELP, in...
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CCA Extends Overseas Community College Networks to Malaysia and USA
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has extended its overseas networks in Malaysia and the USA.
In early January, CCA’s Chair, David Fuller (also CEO of WEA Illawarra), met with the Director General of Malaysia’s Department of Community College Education, YBhg. Dato' Amir Bin Noor, and a number of his senior directors at the Ministry of Education...
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What happened to community education in 2016?
We will have to wait until July to get the full picture of what happened to community-provided vocational education and training (VET) in Australia last year. However on the basis of recent trends, we fear that the community VET numbers dropped again in 2016.
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has analysed data from the National Centre for...
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