2018 March Archive | Community Colleges

Productivity Commission releases final human services reform report

The Commonwealth Productivity Commission’s final report on Reforms to Human Services has just been released and uses the VET FEE-HELP program as a case study of policy failure, and the importance of good government stewardship. The report states: “In the VET system, reforms were not accompanied by adequate safeguards or oversight of providers. In 2012, the...

March 27, 2018

Australian VET is failing – here’s why

Australian vocational education policy is failing, and it’s not hard to see why. That’s the key message from Professor John Quiggan, the University of Queensland, writing in Inside Story on 22 February 2018. Here, in summary, are quotes from Professor Quggin’s article: The crisis “Vocational education in Australia is in crisis. Traditional on-the-job training, through...

March 26, 2018

New NCVER report confirms Australian community education providers provide the best VET services to disadvantaged Australians

Australia’s community education sector provides the best services to disadvantaged Australians, a regional “place-based” analysis has shown. This is one of the major findings from a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Educational Research (NCVER), Improving participation and success in VET for disadvantaged learners. The NCVER report undertook detailed correlation analyses, which...

March 23, 2018

CCA encourages use of philanthropic funding now more than $4 billion in Australia

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has encouraged its members to expand their use of philanthropic funding, now worth more than $4 billion each year in Australia. The significance of philanthropic funding was underlined last week, with the release by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) of a report on Australia’s grant-making charities, which...

March 21, 2018

Commonwealth Government’s VET Student Loans Program Continues to Discriminate Against Community Providers

The Australian Government’s VET Student Loans program – which replaced the much-abused and scandal-prone VET FEE-HELP loan program in January 2017 – continues to discriminate against the not-for-profit community education providers of vocational education and training (VET). Program design faults of the former VET FEE-HELP program...

March 15, 2018

VET Policy Space Gets Hotter with National Inquiry Announced by Labor

Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) policy discussion space has just become a lot more intense with the announcement by the Federal Australian Labor Party of a national inquiry. On 23 February, Deputy ALP Leader (and Shadow Education Minister) Tanya Plibersek announced a “shake up of TAFE and uni”, stating that “Labor wants...

March 12, 2018

Monthly Archives: March 2018

Productivity Commission releases final human services reform report

Australian VET is failing – here’s why

New NCVER report confirms Australian community education providers provide the best VET services to disadvantaged Australians

CCA encourages use of philanthropic funding now more than $4 billion in Australia

Commonwealth Government’s VET Student Loans Program Continues to Discriminate Against Community Providers

VET Policy Space Gets Hotter with National Inquiry Announced by Labor

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