Yearly Archives: 2018

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...

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...

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...

Byron Community College, located in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, has played an instrumental role in developing the new Mullumbimby Innovation Hub. Following the unexpected December 2017 closure by Nortec of the CLIC Business Village – co-located on Byron Council land with Byron Community College – the College has worked rapidly, Read more

Community Colleges Australia has forged new connections with two leading Southern California community colleges. Following meetings with the Presidents of Los Angeles City College and San Diego City College, Community Colleges Australia (CCA) CEO Dr Don Perlgut said, “CCA looks forward to expanding the reach and international connections between Australian community education providers – often called...