Yearly Archives: 2020

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has announced the opening of nominations for the 2020 Community Education Student of the Year Awards.

Students eligible for the 2020 Awards are those who have undertaken formal study with an Australian not-for-profit community education organisation during the period 1 September 2019 through 31 August 2020, with nominations...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has adopted a new corporate logo (pictured). The logo is based on an abstraction of the acronym, “CCA”. Graphically, the circular shape is derived from the contours of the character “C” and the arrow from the “A”. The colour gradation metaphorically represents the journey of growth and empowerment through learning for Australia’s...

In the following opinion article, CCA’s CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, argues that recent statements from many of Australia’s national vocational education and training (VET) bodies do not recognise the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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Australia’s national VET institutions need to pay proper attention to the needs of Indigenous Australians. The recent...

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A new report calls for urgent reforms to support charities as analysis reveals charities could power a post-COVID economic recovery. The report, entitled “Taken for Granted? Charities’ role in economic recovery”, comes from Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). “The financial modelling SVA and CSI has undertaken shows...

Australian Skills Ministers (also known as the Council of Australian Governments Skills Council) met on Friday 31 July 2020, "to advance priorities to support Australia’s critical skills and training needs in response to COVID-19 and to continue progressing long-term reforms that will deliver a strong vocational education and training (VET) system...