Last week, Careers Australia announced its closure in a late night text message to its 15,000 students and 1,000 staff. The reason for the collapse of this private for-profit vocational education and training (VET) company – one of the largest in Australia? It did not receive approval to become a VET Student Loans...
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CCA Conference Pop Quiz #1: What Do the Following People All Have in Common?
Here is CCA’s first “Conference Pop Quiz”: What do the following personalities all have in common?
Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Gregory Peck, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep, Basil Rathbone, Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Radcliffe, Omar Sharif, Olivia Newton-John, Harry Houdini, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Barry Humphries, Sir Laurence Olivier, Douglas Fairbanks, Claudette Colbert, Kylie Minogue,...
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Devastating Debbie’s Aftermath: The Clean-Up Begins in Northern NSW Community Colleges
As Cyclone Debbie travelled south down the Queensland coast at the end of last month, it caused extensive flooding in northern New South Wales. Two CCA member community colleges were particularly affected: ACE Community Colleges in Lismore, and Byron College’s Mullumbimby campus.
ACE Community Colleges CEO Kerry Johnson reports that, “The whole...
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Quote of the week – Australian VET now an inferior education choice
This week’s “quote of the week” comes from Kenneth Wiltshire, Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland business school, from his article in The Australian on 29 March 2017 (“VET reform: passport for well-rounded citizens”):
“VET is now widely considered an inferior educational choice and this is reinforced by the lack of understanding of...
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CCA Attends Labor Skills Summit
Last week, CCA Chair David Fuller and CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, attended “Labor’s National Jobs and Skills Summit” at the Canberra Institute of Technology, along with about 100 industry, education, union and business leaders. Following an introductory speech by the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, the Summit focussed on the themes of...
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CCA Welcomes National Regional Education Review
Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s announcement of a regional education review that will address the key barriers and challenges impacting non-metropolitan students.
The review – announced last week by the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and the Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham – follows CCA’s in-depth...
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