Yearly Archives: 2017

The education and training challenges and opportunities of young people feature highly at Community Colleges Australia’s annual conference in Melbourne, 25 to 27 July. “CCA has constructed a comprehensive program stream for those interested in building better opportunities and pathways for Australia’s young people,” said Dr Don Perlgut, CEO of Community Colleges Australia. “The conference recognises...

The South Australian Council of Social Service (SACOSS) and other organisations have welcomed the changes to funding for SA community organisations announced in late June. At this year’s SACOSS Post-Budget Breakfast, the South Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis announced that State Government will now provide full indexation on not-for-profit funding contracts. From July 1, 2017, all...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) recognises that this week (July 2 to 9) is “NAIDOC Week” (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee). CCA recognises the important role that Indigenous Australians play in Australian life, and honours their elders, past, present and emerging. We thank the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inhabitants of...

The quality of the VET system is being put at risk by a myriad of short courses of varying lengths being offered by training providers, according to the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), the national VET regulator. ASQA has found that more than a quarter of some 11,000 courses advertised on websites had durations below the...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the results of the 2016 Census of Australian population. The Census shows an Australia which is more diverse and less religious, with a notable increase in Indigenous Australians. The 2016 Census counted 23.4 million people living in Australia, an increase of 8.8% since the 2011 Census. Australia’s...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has warmly welcomed the NSW Government’s commitment to community college funding in 2017/18. NSW colleges received notifications earlier this week of four separate programs:

• the Adult and Community Education (ACE) “Community Service Obligation (CSO) program, with a small increase in allocations from 2016/17;
• a new “Tech Savvy for Small Business” program...