Monthly Archives: January 2020

The Australian Government has released guidelines for VET and university education providers and students about the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). **** The instructions for providers read: “If a student or staff member has been informed by health authorities that they are a close contact of a confirmed case of the novel...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has released a discussion paper on the role that Australian adult and community education (ACE) providers can play in sustaining Australian democracy and supporting civil society. CCA prepared the paper as a submission to the Australian Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee Inquiry...

Australian vocational education and training (VET) graduates who study with not-for-profit community education providers continue to top the national figures in their move from unemployment to employment. The latest figures, released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in the VET Student Outcomes 2019 report (December 2019), show that the...

CCA had an extremely busy year in 2019: view the 2019 CCA achievements infographic in PDF here or below. Aside from our successful national conference – with a record participation by seven Australian political leaders from local, state and Federal governments, and more than 150 participants, speaker and...

Funding for vocational education and training (VET) is at its lowest level in more than a decade and Australia risks failing to properly provide the high-quality training for the 45% of new jobs needing VET qualifications that will be created in the next five years. That’s the message from the Australian Investment...