Monthly Archives: January 2019

The Community Colleges Australia (CCA) submission to the Australian Government’s Expert Review of the VET Sector highlights the important contributions that not-for-profit community education providers make to Australian post-secondary education. Key points of the CCA submission: VET Sector and Community Education

• In 2017, 442 not-for-profit community education providers delivered training...

The national VET regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has cancelled a number of private college registrations and also assisted police in the arrest of three former college staff. Eight private for-profit colleges have had their accreditation cancelled in ASQA’s decisions announced on 2 January 2019:

• Lianrick Pty Ltd, trading as Advanced Careers College
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Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has published an article by Libby Waring, Principal of City East College (Bondi NSW), about how to go about maximising search engine optimisation (SEO) of your website. She writes: There are few businesses who wouldn’t want to increase their online discoverability. After all, in the big wide...

Adult Learning Australia (ALA) has posted a number of short, thought-provoking opinion pieces that tackle contemporary issues in adult learning, lifelong learning and community education. The authors offer diverse points of view from differing social, economic, political and cultural perspectives. A message from The Hon Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has welcomed the NSW Government’s commitment to provide funding assistance for the maintenance of NSW adult and community education (ACE) providers. CCA had requested the NSW Government in May 2018 to provide funding to support maintenance costs of community education providers. Following representations on behalf of CCA members made...

CCA has released its 2018 Year in Review, which covers CCA’s activities during the 12 month period January through December 2018, including policy development, CCA and other community education sector events, other events and presentations, highlights of the year, strategic partnerships, representation, member visits, communications and the challenges ahead. Read the Year in Review 2018 below,...