Yearly Archives: 2022

The three CCA members which were heavily impacted by the February and March 2022 NSW north coast floods are now recovering from the experience. CCA CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, visited the three affected members in mid-December – ACE Community Colleges (based in Lismore), Byron Community College (Mullumbimby and Byron Bay) and North Coast Community College (Alstonville). The...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has requested changes to the selection criteria and processes of the NSW Government’s Smart and Skilled program expression of interest (EOI), to ensure the state’s not-for-profit (NFP) adult and community (ACE) providers will not be disadvantaged. About Smart and Skilled: The NSW Government’s Smart and Skilled program provides...

Disadvantaged Australians have fared far worse than all others during COVID-19. A new report from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) reinforces the tremendous challenges the pandemic has posed for disadvantaged and vulnerable Australians. Those findings have been reinforced in turn by two NCVER reports which show disadvantaged adult learners have left training in...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, has called on Australian universities to partner with not-for-profit adult and community education (ACE) providers to ensure the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged Australian post-secondary education learners are met. In a presentation to the Engagement Australia conference this week, Dr Perlgut detailed six ways...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has formally requested “guardrails” to protect Australian adult and community education (ACE) providers from possible unintended consequences of “Free TAFE”. This policy will create an additional 180,000 “fee-free” TAFE places to commence in January 2023 and a further 300,000 places from 2024. In its...

Eminent Australian higher education leader Professor David Wilmoth (pictured), former Deputy Vice Chancellor at RMIT, will be the guest speaker at the Community Colleges Australia (CCA) Annual General Meeting (AGM), to be held on Tuesday 22 November. Professor Wilmoth recently published The Promise of the City: Adventures in Learning Cities and Higher Education ( Read more