About: Don Perlgut

The Victorian Minister for Training and Skills Gayle Tierney has announced the Advisory Board of the Victorian Skills Authority (VSA), representing experience that will ensure Victoria’s training sector continues to meet the needs of jobseekers and industry. The Advisory Board will be chaired by Lisa Line and set out a plan for...

A Central Coast Community College teacher has won the NSW VET Trainer of the Year Award, presented on 9 October. Erin Jacob (pictured), a dedicated and talented trainer/teacher at the College, has worked with disadvantaged cohorts and students with disabilities to pave the way for new training...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has found “the conduct of the vaccine rollout, especially to people living in residential disability settings and disability support workers was ‘seriously deficient’”, undertaken without consulting the disability sector. The draft report identifies three core problems with the rollout...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused “disadvantaged Australians [to] face triple jeopardy – low vaccination rates, greater likelihood of being infected with COVID-19, and higher risks of serious disease and death from COVID-19,” writes Anne Kavanagh in The Conversation. There is a fourth jeopardy for disadvantaged Australian adults during COVID-19: the loss of...

A major new report from Riverina Community College examines non-accredited training within the New South Wales Adult and Community Education (ACE) Program. Entitled Supporting Pathways in Learning and Life, the report notes that, “While accredited education is a mainstay of the NSW ACE sector’s delivery of quality training, non-accredited programs have...

In the following article, CCA’s CEO, Dr Don Perlgut, outlines the importance for Australian adult and community education (ACE) providers to commence planning for recommencement of training in coming months, as vaccination rates increase.

Background

Despite a devastating wave of COVID-19 infections since late June, both New South Wales and Victoria are making plans for a re-opening...