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National Jobs and Skills Summit Briefing from Community Colleges Australia

Australia’s not-for-profit adult and community education (ACE) providers can and should play an important role in skilling Australia and will be an essential mechanism to assist government efforts to meet skills gaps – especially of disadvantaged learners – and to move to full employment. ( Read more

The number of Australian adult and community education (ACE) students have rebounded by 15.2%, according to data released by the NCVER today. ACE “Total VET” student numbers increased from 390,185 in 2020 to 449,500 in 2021. In 2021, 4.3 million students were enrolled in nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET), an increase of...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has made a strong case for expansion of the number of fee-free child care training places to NSW adult and community education (ACE) providers. Earlier this week, the NSW Government announced commitment of “25,000 fee-free training places to bolster the pipeline of skilled and job-ready workers for the...