Riverina Community College is seeking to build its research profile in order to tap into social equity funding for a variety of projects: creating strategies for dealing with youth unemployment is probably top of their project list.
The first of two research articles, published late last year, looked further than the superficial "blame the youth" excuse,...
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Holistic Assessment workshop at The Parramatta College
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]CCA, generously hosted by The Parramatta College at their Western Sydney Skills Hub, held a well-attended professional development session for trainers and assessors on Thursday 9 November.
Participants brought a diversity of experience and ranged from novice assessors through to coordinators and trainers with vast experience. The facilitator, Sue Flindell from Positive Learning Solutions, brought it...
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Collision Point – Youth Unemployment Amid a Changing World of Work (Part One)
Riverina Community College is seeking to build its research profile in order to tap into social equity funding for a variety of projects: creating strategies for dealing with youth unemployment is probably top of their project list.
In the first of two research articles that will shortly be released on their new website (due to go...
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Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement Promotes an Inclusive and Sustainable Australia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2017–18, Everyone’s Business: Developing an Inclusive and Sustainable Economy, has been released. Each year the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference issues a major statement for the coming year, on Social Justice Sunday (the last Sunday in September).
This year’s statement calls for “an...
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Reducing Unemployment in Australia: We Need a National Training Policy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has called for a national training policy to get Australians back to work.
“It’s time to get serious about reducing Australia’s unemployment rate,” Dr Don Perlgut, CCA CEO, has written in today’s blog post, entitled “Let’s Get Serious About Reducing Unemployment: We Need a National Training Policy that Gets...
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CCA Submission to NVETR Review
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has provided a submission to the Review of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (NVETR) Act 2011. CCA based the submission on a survey of a number of members that deliver vocational education and training (VET).
The submission highlights the views of the low risk, learner-centred, not-for-profit community-based...
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