Yearly Archives: 2018

A new report from Community Colleges Australia (CCA) highlights how NSW community education providers contribute to the state’s regional and rural economic development. The report concludes that the not-for-profit community education sector constitutes a major economic development resource that has been under-utilised by state, Commonwealth and local governments. “CCA’s report has been produced to ensure that...

Did we need any more proof that uncapped funding of private for-profit vocational education and training (VET) providers has been a disaster for Australia? A “disastrous backfire”, according to John Ross, writing in The Australian on Thursday 1 February 2018. His article (“Vocation training open market schemes a disaster”) about the Productivity...

Riverina Community College is seeking to build its research profile in order to tap into social equity funding for a variety of projects: creating strategies for dealing with youth unemployment is probably top of their project list. The first of two research articles, published late last year, looked further than the superficial "blame the youth" excuse,...

Garry John Traynor, Founding Principal of Sydney Community College (SCC), has received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the General Division for “services to adult education”. Sydney Community College was previously known as Leichhardt-Marrickville Community College. Following Garry’s appointment as Principal in 1986, it became Sydney Community College under Garry’s leadership in...

Will the Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) save Australian vocational education and training? Probably not, is the answer. That’s what we can glean from today’s Australian newspaper (John Ross, “Migration slump jeopardises funding for VET sector”), which reports that, “Government figures show that the number of primary skilled visas being issued fell by more...

Australia’s adult and community education organisations are well-positioned to expand their activities in social entrepreneurship. This will complement their historic community development role and delivering programs to meet local social and economic needs through training for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. This is one of the key findings arising from Community Colleges Australia’s (CCA) Read more