Yearly Archives: 2018

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has restated its call for a comprehensive national review of Australian vocational education and training (VET). Such a review will “underpin future funding arrangements, along with improved data and transparency to help stakeholders make more informed decisions.” CEDA’s Professor Rodney Maddock spoke at CCA’s annual conference in...

The Australian vocational education and training sector is at high risk of a steep decline in participation, says a new report by the Mitchell Institute, released today. “If we look at the tertiary education sector as a whole – both VET and higher education together – and think ahead, then we face a significant risk...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has endorsed the push for a national Australian Lifelong Learning policy by Adult Learning Australia (ALA). ALA held a National Lifelong Learning Summit in Melbourne on 17 April 2018 that aimed to “put lifelong learning in the centre stage” of Australian discussion to counter inequality, disadvantage, poverty, intergenerational unemployment,...

An Australian Federal VET Policy Forum and panel discussion will put the issue of VET front and centre in the lead up to the Federal election. The event brings together thought leaders and key stakeholders from the vocational education and training (VET) sector, and will provide a platform for discussion, debate and also for concerns...

Australia’s Public Education Foundation has released a major report that examines the price of educational inequality in Australia’s schools. What Price the Gap? Education and Inequality in Australia, by the Foundation’s Executive Director David Hetherington examines educational inequality and its cost to Australia. The report estimates that over the six years from 2009...