About: Don Perlgut

Australian Skills Ministers (also known as the Council of Australian Governments Skills Council) met on Friday 31 July 2020, "to advance priorities to support Australia’s critical skills and training needs in response to COVID-19 and to continue progressing long-term reforms that will deliver a strong vocational education and training (VET) system...

Community Colleges Australia has provided a submission to the Australian Government Productivity Commission inquiry into the national Skills and Workforce Development Agreement. This inquiry has been commissioned to examine how well Australian, state and territory governments have achieved their goals for the vocational education and training (VET) system, as set out...

Guyra Adult Learning (New England Community College) has received two funding boosts for its local newspaper, the Guyra Gazette. Guyra Adult Learning received $40,422 from Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) from the Tracking Tough Times Together program. The grant will increase the...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) has undertaken a record number – 20 sessions – of professional development activities during first half of 2020. After the Coronavirus pandemic began to impact Australian social, economic, educational and communal life in early March 2020, CCA was forced to cancel its planned face-to-face professional development programs. CCA immediately adapted the programs...

The Australian Government has announced a new JobTrainer program to re-train and upskill workers into sectors with job opportunities, as the economy recovers from COVID-19. The program will emphasise the country’s most vulnerable workers, particularly young people and job-seekers. The Government has committed $2 billion to give hundreds...

In the following opinion article, Jennifer Aldred discusses how Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) system needs to keep pace with the changing nature of work, and how adult and community education (ACE) providers are well-qualified to provide the diverse forms of training that NCVER advocates in its new paper Workforce-ready: challenges and opportunities for...