Why won’t the issue of for-profit Australian vocational education and training (VET) go away, even with the long-awaited and much-welcomed replacement of the flawed loan program VET FEE-HELP with VET Student Loans?
CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, addresses this question in his latest blog post on the CCA website.
Dr Perlgut notes that, “There is an...
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CCA Attends Labor Skills Summit
Last week, CCA Chair David Fuller and CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, attended “Labor’s National Jobs and Skills Summit” at the Canberra Institute of Technology, along with about 100 industry, education, union and business leaders. Following an introductory speech by the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, the Summit focussed on the themes of...
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CCA Welcomes National Regional Education Review
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s announcement of a regional education review that will address the key barriers and challenges impacting non-metropolitan students.
The review – announced last week by the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and the Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham – follows CCA’s in-depth...
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VET Student Loans Program Update
The first round of organisations approved to offer the Commonwealth’s new VET Student Loans program during the “transition period” (to 30 June 2017) includes four CCA members: Community College Gippsland, Kiama Community College, St George and Sutherland Community College and WEA Hunter. A small number of other not-for-profit organisations and associations have also been...
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CCA issues a call for presentations to the July Melbourne conference
CCA has issued its first “Call for Papers” for the annual conference, to take place in Melbourne from 25-27 July 2017. We are looking for innovative presentations and ideas that will engage the conference attendees, who will come from all around Australia and overseas. While we are interested in presentations that deal with the conference...
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Report calls for increased investment in community education to tackle disadvantage and unemployment in rural Australia
Australian governments should increase investment in community education to address higher levels of disadvantage and unemployment in rural and regional Australia, according to a new report from Community Colleges Australia (CCA).
The report, The Role of Community Education in Australian Regional and Rural Economic Development, finds that not-for-profit community-based vocational education and training (VET) providers...
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