CCA is pleased to welcome the VET Development Centre (VDC) as a CCA Sydney Conference supporter. The VDC specialises in providing continuing professional learning for the VET workforce as well as strategic support services for all VET providers in Australia, not just in Victoria. The VDC has a diverse range of VET professional...
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Community Education Provider Government-funded VET student numbers rebound in 2021
Australian not-for-profit adult and community education (ACE) student numbers re-bounded in 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Latest data sets from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research (NCVER), Government-funded students and courses 2021 (issued 12 July 2022), show a significant re-bound in student numbers from 2020 (see table below), which...
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Inequality in Australia: What can vocational education and training do about it?
Inequality of wealth and income. It's blamed for everything from the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA to the passage of 'Brexit' to the growth of political third parties in Australia.
CCA’s CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, recently presented at the NCVER “No Frills” conference on the topic “Inequality in Australia: What can vocational...
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Audit Express to shine at CCA September Conference
Audit Express – a company that specialises in regulatory compliance, governance, quality assurance and risk management – is excited to be sponsoring and presenting at the upcoming CCA 2022 Conference in Sydney. The Audit Express team has grown significantly over the past few...
Time to get serious about ventilation and air quality in training and post-secondary education
In the following article, Dr Don Perlgut, CCA’s CEO, argues that Australia is not doing enough to improve clean air in post-secondary education and training environments. Given the COVID-19 pandemic will be with us for a very long time to come, he advocates that training providers and universities need to invest...
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NCVER No Frills Conference Looks to How Australian VET Can Transform the Future
The National Centre for Vocational Education and Research (NCVER) Annual “No Frills” conference opens on Wednesday, 6 July for a three-day fully online event on the theme “VET’s role in transforming the future”.
Featured speakers include Sophie Renton, social researcher, trends analyst and Managing Director at McCrindle Research; Alex Jackson, Executive Designer...
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