Monthly Archives: September 2019

A launch of the latest Community Colleges Australia report shows how NSW community education providers significantly over-perform on almost all tracked measures in reaching vulnerable and disadvantaged students. The NSW Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education, the Hon Dr Geoff Lee MP, launched the Community Colleges Australia (CCA) report (PDF), on government-funded...

The Commonwealth Government has established a Vocational Education and Training (VET) Stakeholder Committee to help drive its reform agenda. Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash (pictured), said the Committee will ensure that stakeholder views are understood, considered and included during the implementation of the Government’s...

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting of federal, state and territory skills ministers – held on Friday 20 September in Melbourne – has agreed that the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), Australia’s national VET regulator, should “improve its engagement with the VET sector” and expand its role in helping to educate training providers. The inaugural...

An Australian court has ordered $26.5 million in penalties against Cornerstone Investments Aust Pty Ltd, trading as Empower Institute (in liquidation) (Empower), the highest total penalties ever imposed for breaches of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). The media release (20 September) from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says: The Court also...