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Community Colleges Australia (CCA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Community Education Innovation Prize, recognising the leading programs in Australia’s community education sector. ACE Community Colleges took out the 2016 prize for their program “Licensed and on the Road”, which offers free driving lessons to Aboriginal people in Lismore NSW. The lessons are delivered...

A new era has begun for VET FEE-HELP, the highly troubled Commonwealth Government loans scheme for vocational education and training (VET) students.  It’s called “VET Student Loans”, and it replaces VET FEE-HELP, as announced by Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training on 5 October 2016. “The new VET Student Loans...

The CCA Annual Conference – running this year from 18 to 20 October – has achieved a record number of sponsors and exhibitors, with 12 organisations supporting the event. “This unprecedented level of support from sponsors and exhibitors at the CCA Sydney conference is a good indication of the vitality and importance of the...

Australian vocational education and training may feel sometimes like a political football, but it also serves more than 4.5 million people, enrolling in more than 29 million subjects. How do we make sense of such a confusing sector, with its rapid changes in regulation, funding and the widely...

So, is it true, as American computer scientist Alan Kay once wrote, that “the best way to predict the future is to invent it”? We at Community Colleges Australia (CCA) believe so. That’s why we have used Alan Kay’s often-quoted statement as the “tag-line” for our 2016 Annual Conference, which has...