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The national vocational education and training (VET) student data from “COVID year one” – the 2020 calendar year – is now available, and shows a national decline of 260,240 (6.2%) from 2019 to 2020, from 4,181,535 to 3,921,285 students. Drawing on reports from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), CCA...

SBS TV will premiere its new adult literacy television documentary series, Lost for Words, commencing Wednesday 22 September on SBS at 8.30pm, as well as on SBS On Demand. Lost for Words follows eight Australians taking on a life-changing opportunity to transform their lives in an intensive nine-week long adult literacy program. Hosted...

The Commonwealth Skills Minister has challenged the VET sector with a series hard questions, reports TAFE Directors Australia. The Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Stuart Robert (pictured), “has delivered a blunt assessment of key elements of the VET sector, including apprenticeships and qualifications development” in his speech at the virtual...

Given the importance that vaccination now plays in Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on Australian adult and community education (ACE) providers, CCA has collated a selection of recent news and analysis on vaccination and COVID-19 impacts relevant for adult and community education providers, and the VET sector more broadly. Please Read more

The NSW Government has mandated vaccination for all primary and secondary school staff from 8 November and has identified a staggered return of students to face-to-face learning to begin on Monday 25 October. These announcements were made by the NSW Education Minister, Sarah Mitchell (pictured below, at the press conference), at the...