Monthly Archives: May 2021

Aged care remains Australia’s most vulnerable societal pressure point, as an aged care worker at a facility in Melbourne has been diagnosed with COVID-19, sending the home into lockdown. Contact tracers have not yet been able to link the aged care worker to an existing case, and Acting Premier James Merlino says...

CCA’s National 2021 ACE Summit will include a focus on wellbeing economics and how Australia’s adult and community education providers contribute to national wellbeing. Dr Marcia Keegan (pictured), a Canberra-based Associate and Partner at SGS Economics and Planning – and an acclaimed expert on how to connect...

Meet Isaac Wood (pictured), who commenced his training in the Certificate III – Individual Support ageing specialisation – at the Community College Northern Inland (CCNI) Bingara campus early in February 2021. According to the College, prior to enrolling in his studies, Isaac did not have a full understanding of how much...

Registrations are now open for CCA’s 2021 National ACE Summit – taking place in the morning of 29 June – which will run in a “hybrid” from Summit headquarters at the historic Mint on Sydney’s Macquarie Street, with a virtual platform that allows participation from all around the country. In-person registrations...

Australia’s adult and community education (ACE) providers are poised and ready to work with Commonwealth and state governments to help expand and train new workers.

Budget Aged Care Workforce Commitment

This week’s Commonwealth Budget promised a $652 million workforce strategy that includes upskilling of the existing workforce, and subsidised training for 33,800 new...

The Commonwealth Government has commenced with a major commitment to foundation skills – language, literacy, numeracy, digital and employability skills – as part of this year’s Budget. In a pre-Budget interview, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said, “We have initiatives to try to get some of the long term unemployed...